At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes to tombs, though, pharaoh Khufu must have…
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – these days the Penn Museum – was conceived in the late 19th…
The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on microevolution in an early hominin species, as…
A project looking at the history of crops in prehistoric China has identified differences in regional diets and changes over time, which…
The remains of two individuals who died during the eruption of Vesuvius have been found at a suburban villa near Pompeii.…
An ongoing study in the Makran Sefidkuh region of Iran is shedding light on the culture and archaeological remains of communities in…
A sub-adult burial dating to the early-mid Holocene, c.8000 BP, has been found in Makpan Cave on Alor Island, south-eastern Indonesia. To…
A geoglyph has been discovered on a hillside in the Nazca desert of Peru during the emergency project ‘Cleaning, Conservation and Restoration…
Discovering a previously unsuspected Roman cemetery would normally rank as the archaeological highlight of a building project. Recent work on Corsica, though,…
Sicily was famed in antiquity for its agricultural prosperity. An eloquent witness of its late Roman wealth is provided by the great…
A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway. It was first identified during a ground…
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was obsessed with defending his ‘paradise on earth’. He feared invasion by NATO troops using a combination…