The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
Excavations in the Unbelievers City at Merv have revealed a workers' quarter and evidence for steel making in the 9th century AD…
A look at recent archaeology in Jordan with a special focus on the reconstruction of the Neolithic village of Beidha…
Oldest buildings of their type discovered on island of Marawah…
A major new museum has been planned for Giza, Egypt…
Conference on medieval Japanese archaeology…
Exciting finds fromsite on the river Cetina in Croatia…
Neil Faulkner describes a forthcoming TV series on Caesar's campaigns in Gaul…
Richard Hodges describes his latest travels in Italy, Greece and Albania…
The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt Ed. Bill Manley, Thames and Hudson, £24.95 Were the pyramids built by slaves? Did the…
The Graeco-Roman site of Butrint, is hitherto little known, because it lies in Albania, and has thus been little visited. But since…
In 1576, the Elizabethan adventurer Martin Frobisher setout to discover the North-west passage to China, across the barren wastes of northern Canada.…
The Niah Cave, in Sarawak (which is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable: sa-RA-wak), is one of the crucial sites…