It is easy to see the Thracians as stereotypes. According to the ancient literature, they were riders, warriors, and capable of horrifying…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…
Divers exploring the now-submerged caves of Quintana Roo in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered evidence for red ochre mining between 12,000 and…
Is it possible to write history without people? Of course, archaeology is all about history without people, but we invent the people.…
With prehistoric painted caves, ruins of Roman cities, spectacular places of worship converted during periods of conquest and reconquest, and elaborate palaces…
High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was…
Discover how a chance detail on a 19th-century map set in train a longstanding archaeological expedition at this elite necropolis, which is…
The Ancient Egyptian cemetery at Saqqara received burials for thousands of years. One consequence of this is a remarkable concentration of funerary…
Oliver Gilkes tours the Danube, in the first of a two-part exploration of Serbia’s archaeology. The mighty Danube runs for almost 2,000km…
Exploring a Founding Father’s mobile home Why was a 19th-century New York house relocated twice – and how was it done? Carly…
No matter how many years I have spent in the Mediterranean in wintertime, I cannot get it into my head that it…
As they walked across Engare Sero in northern Tanzania, a group of people left their mark in the soft surface of volcanic…
The House of Augustus: a historical detective storyT P WisemanPrinceton University Press, £30ISBN 978-0691180076Review by: Andrew Selkirk What is the most terrible…