At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Currently on exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is an example of what many art historians regard as the Romans’ most significant artistic…
Researchers suspect the corpse of Oetzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its…
A project to reconstruct a 5000 BC henge monument, interpreted as a solar observatory, the oldest of its kind in Europe, has…
Fake prehistoric rock art of a caveman with a wire shopping trolley has been hung on the walls of the British Museum.…
Richard Hodges on the archaeology of Macedonia, formerly part of Yugoslavia…
In a medieval, and indeed modern Rome, one building above all dominates the city: the Colosseum. Erected on a swamp in the…
Richard Hodges interviews Muzafer Korkuti, Director of Albania's Institute of Archaeology…
The remains of some 700 ancient mine-shafts and 200 ore-processing facilities have been discovered at Laurion in south-east Africa…
Shopping centre construction reveals Celtic grave…
Questions raised as to the authenticity of the Bronze Age disc…
Ancient occupiers of the site of Pompeii may have met the same fate as their Predecessors of AD 79…
3D digital image created of 11th century gatehouse…