The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
The archaeology of a Roman technological revolution: the cheiroballistra…
A royal fort in the Hindu Kush, and its seige in 1895: Bill Woodburn and Neil Faulkner report…
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…
Richard Hodges describes his latest travels in Italy, Greece and Albania…
Neil Faulkner describes a forthcoming TV series on Caesar's campaigns in Gaul…
The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt Ed. Bill Manley, Thames and Hudson, £24.95 Were the pyramids built by slaves? Did the…
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramids have fascinated and baffled visitors for centuries, the difficulty of their…
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.…