At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Excavations in southern Turkey have uncovered a huge Roman mosaic, suggesting that Imperial culture was more influential on the edge of the…
Our ideas about what a Roman fort should look like are being overturned, or at least being severely challenged, by recent reconstructions…
The Temple of Hera at Selinunte is testament to the grandeur of this great Classical settlement. But it is just one of…
Down on the quayside in front of Oslo’s fabulously functional City Hall, a small queue of tourists gather to catch the ferry…
As the aeroplane circled to land at Athens international airport, I half expected to see a riot on the runway. The hysteria…
The stereotypical Viking of popular culture is a marauding raider in a horned helmet, but the archaeological record provides a much more…
Recycling is no modern concept: our ancestors were adept at putting old tools to new uses 13,000 years ago, archaeologists in Spain,…
A 6,500-year-old tooth packed with beeswax could represent the earliest evidence of a dental filling, newly-published research has announced. Found in part…
The well-preserved wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman merchant ship carrying hundreds of clay amphorae has been found off the coast of Italy.…
Archaeologists have mapped the entire streetplan of a lost Roman town, revealing that what was thought to be a sleepy backwater was…
Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age city north of the Alps?…
Excavations in Croatia have uncovered evidence of Palaeolithic artists who were modelling ceramic figurines at the end of the last Ice Age…