Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed…
At a barbecue last year, a former student of mine, who had joined me on my excavations for 20 years, suggested the…
It is a traveller’s story repeated throughout the decades. The first-time visitor to Paris arrives in the city armed with a checklist…
Tuscany conjures thoughts of the apogee of rich living. Its picturesque villages, graced by grand villas and their pools, serve as summer…
He founded the Oriental Institute in Chicago, was the first American to achieve a doctorate in Egyptology, and his book is an…
We travel from all over the country to visit a special exhibition at the British Museum in London, or even hop across…
The ancient temples of Angkor have endured nearly a millennium of conflict and warfare, but will this new visitor boom, asks Tom…
Patagonia at the end of the Ice Age was not a pleasant place to live: it was a time of great climatic…
A sequence of clear, parallel lines stands out brightly against the red clay wall at the entrance to Chamber A1 in Rouffignac…
Taking a bulldozer to open an ancient monument is not usually recommended. But, in 1977, that is exactly what Manolis Andronikos did.…
In the last 10 years, a flurry of archaeological excavation ahead of the completion of the Ilısu Dam on the River Tigris…
A multi-million dollar project to help preserve Luxor’s world-famous temples has resumed after being delayed for nine months by the Egyptian revolution.…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…