At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
We are proud to share with you the first published photos of the House of the Telephus Relief at Herculaneum since archaeologists…
"You really wouldn't want a vampire in the house, trailing blood and gore, and smelling putrid"…
Half a dozen of us stood or crouched in the faint dawn light on either side of the great stone doorway, just…
By Claire Holleran Oxford University Press, £65.00 ISBN 978-0199698219 Researching for her PhD thesis, Holleran soon identified a gap in the…
Do the outlines of hands in Spain’s El Castillo cave belong to Homo sapiens or to their earlier Neanderthal cousins?…
The Royal Academy is planning a spectacular and innovative new exhibition that will bring together an eclectic collection of bronze artefacts spanning…
When they were built in the 2nd century AD, the great watermills at Barbegal, in the South of France, were at the…
The unstoppable Persian king, Cyrus the Great, powered through Anatolia, conquering all in his path. In 547 BC, he defeated Croesus, the…
The Koru tumulus The large cluster of tumuli around Lake Kuş (Lake Manyas) – reminiscent of the Thousand Mounds of Sardis, the…
Europe’s oldest known cave art could be the work of Neanderthals more than 40,000 years ago, say archaeologists. The abstract red circles…
Archaeologists have identified the world’s oldest instruments, showing that early modern humans were making music 40,000 years ago. Two flutes, one made…
The excavations at La Draga in Spain – which is among the earliest known agricultural settlements on the northern Iberian Peninsula –…