At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Rome is empty of tourists in late January; Umbria is even emptier, yet on most days there is sunshine for nine hours.…
Non Ban Jak will soon be slumbering again in the heat of the dry season here in Northeast Thailand. The huge mound…
Tom St John Gray reports on the legacy of the atomic bomb: is it heritage, horror, or both?…
The EU have launched a £36.1m project to help conserve the spectacular Roman ruins at Pompeii. Approved by the European Commission in…
Egyptian blue, the world’s oldest artificial pigment, could have a range of modern uses from medical imaging devices to remote controls for…
Human remains found beneath a Leicester carpark are those of Richard III, England’s last Medieval monarch, a multi-disciplinary team of experts have…
Over 130 human skulls, thought to be the remains of human sacrifices, have been discovered in a remote Mexican field, far from…
Archaeologists examining the 1,600 year-old remains of a woman from Roman Spain have made a unique – if grisly – discovery: a…
Archaeologists returning to the spot where the enigmatic ‘Lion Man’ was found 74 years ago have announced the discovery of almost 1,000…
Neanderthals might have died out 15,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning that they could not have interacted or interbred with modern…
Prehistoric snail shells contain a wealth of information about what the climate was like thousands of years ago, newly-published research says. Chemical…
Ongoing excavations at Sedeinga, a 2,000-year-old necropolis in northern Sudan, have uncovered the remains of at least 35 densely-clustered pyramid burials –…