Why is Ramses II considered to be ‘the Great’? An exhibition focusing on his life and times sheds light on how Ramses…
The archaeology of a Roman technological revolution: the cheiroballistra…
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…
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…
When were the Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean, first settled? Peter Drewett has been excavating an important prehistoric settlement at Belmont, first…
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramids have fascinated and baffled visitors for centuries, the difficulty of their…