Art and artefacts from ancient Egypt must rank among the most remarkable and influential from the ancient world. Yet we know comparatively…
Beehives dating to the time of Solomon discovered in the Jordan Valley…
It is a problem that has frustrated many an archaeologist faced with recreating an ancient wall painting, mosaic or pot: just how…
Cattle, sheep and goats were domesticated by the 8th millennium BC but until recently the earliest evidence for milk processing, most likely…
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Sea shells and phallic figurines found in Neolithic graves…
Far from the Amazon being virgin forest, it once supported a network of densely populated towns, according to Prof. Mike Heckenberger, from…
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade…
Richard Hodges writes from Gettysburg, USA…
Specialist archaeological insights on the city of Timbuktu from Prof. Tim Insoll…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…