At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Denise Allen, Andante Travels There has been a curious contrast over the past decade: while archaeology has been hit hard by the…
The dig The site of the Roman Imperial villa at Piazza Armerina was buried by a landslide in 1161, and the remains…
A Roman retreat Eighteen Roman emperors came from Serbia – more than anywhere else outside Italy. One of them was Gaius Galerius…
Off the beaten track in Iraqi Kurdistan For millennia, empires have clashed in the breathtaking landscape of Mesopotamia, leaving in their wake…
Mistra, the Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese, is the most exquisitely beautiful of places, an unforgettable combination of peerless art and important…
3,000 golden grave goods in Early Chalcolithic Bulgaria…
Tom St John Gray goes in search of the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City. With limited Chinese, I boarded…
Archaeologists have found the missing head of a 40,000 year old figurine, whose body was excavated in 1931. The two pieces have…
A unique gold figurine in the shape of a woman, thought to be 1,500 years old, has been found close to a…
A tiny skeleton dating back 55 million years is the oldest primate fossil ever found, shedding new light on human evolution, researchers…
Wine was introduced to France from Italy, with the first Gaulish vintages produced in c.500 BC, according to newly-published chemical analysis. Archaeological…
The dig Imperial rivalry and a growing awareness that little was known of a major Anatolian civilisation of Late Bronze Age and…