At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
The Temple of Hera at Selinunte is testament to the grandeur of this great Classical settlement. But it is just one of…
An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret…
Down on the quayside in front of Oslo’s fabulously functional City Hall, a small queue of tourists gather to catch the ferry…
As the aeroplane circled to land at Athens international airport, I half expected to see a riot on the runway. The hysteria…
Margaret Maitland British Museum Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714119984 This small book takes on a huge subject: the role of the pharaoh as…
Ed. Morris L Bierbrier Egypt Exploration Society, £35 The Egypt Exploration Society has updated their compendium of Egyptologists after a gap of…
The stereotypical Viking of popular culture is a marauding raider in a horned helmet, but the archaeological record provides a much more…
Archaeologists will be able to determine the age of ancient objects much more precisely, following a breakthrough in radiocarbon dating using sediments…
Archaeologists have discovered 50 human skulls and over 250 jawbones dating back over 500 years near a sacrificial stone at the main…
Recycling is no modern concept: our ancestors were adept at putting old tools to new uses 13,000 years ago, archaeologists in Spain,…
Excavations in Guatemala may have uncovered the tomb of K’abel, a 7th century warrior queen and one of the great female rulers…
A 6,500-year-old tooth packed with beeswax could represent the earliest evidence of a dental filling, newly-published research has announced. Found in part…