Deep beneath Australia’s Nullarbor Plain lies Koonalda Cave. Lakes can be found within its subterranean passages, a matter of no little import…
Viva La Revolucion! is a wonderfully engaging title featuring recipes from Mexico’s best chefs. Cook-books are certainly all the rage at Christmas, but…
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut…
Instead of plastic toys that will be broken before Christmas dinner, how about one of the British Museum pocket series as stocking-fillers…
According to the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, the Royal Tombs of Vergina, in northern Greece, belong to King Phillip II (388-336 BC) and…
John Preston’s The Dig, a story about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo, has now been published in paperback. It…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
A snapshot of the Australopithecus afarensis, otherwise known as 'Lucy'.…
Our cover story reveals why, contrary to Old Testament teachings, the 'evil' Ahab and his father Omri should be regarded as the…
How rescue archaeology is revolutionising our knowledge of the past…
Prof. Charles Higham reports on the latest discoveries from Ban Non Wat, one of the world's richest archaeological digs…