At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
The Garamantes of Fezzan: barbaric hut- and tent-dwelling nomads, or a civilisation of wealth and power?…
Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia is the world’s oldest man-made structure. Could religion have been the catalyst that ignited the 'Neolithic Revolution'?…
The lost city of a lost civilisation - yet today it is one of the most important Pre-Hispanic sites in South…
Civil unrest, violent clashes, an oppressive authority: we could be talking about Syria today. But this is 6,000 years ago, during the…
Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas…
Very early in my archaeological career, I encountered an intense debate on the chronology of the earliest Neolithic in the Near East.…
When magnificent mosaics were revealed in the Roman villas at Zeugma, such was their impact that the Turkish authorities decided they deserved…
Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul (eds) Oxford University Press, £80 Walter Scott called it a ‘City of the Dead’. To Goethe it…
How on earth do you get the students up at 5am? That, rather than the archaeology, is the question that preoccupies my…
Troy is not a place one normally associates with Holland. Yet the Dutch claim to have their own version: Dorestad. It lies…
Andorra is best known as an inexpensive ski-resort, but the tiny landlocked principality is chock-full of archaeology, its rich cultural heritage waiting…
China’s heritage sites are fast disappearing – to tomb-robbers and thieves, or to make way for industrial projects and new developments. These…