The Thracians made a keen impression on both their neighbours and the archaeological record, but how much do we really know about…
Archaeologists in Yorktown, Virginia have found a well-preserved kiln site manufacturing fine stoneware pottery at a time when colonial pottery-making was banned:…
Excavations at Areni 1 Cave in the Vayots Dzor region, on Armenia’s border with Iran and Turkey, have unearthed parts of a…
Ayutthaya lies on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, a mighty waterway fed by innumerable tributaries that rise in the Phetchabun…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
A 45,000-year-old toddler’s milk tooth, found in southern Italy, is evidence of the first modern humans to reach Europe. Stefano Benazzi, of…
New thinking on the movement of Homo sapiens has also emerged from the UK. A fragment of upper jawbone with three teeth…
A long-neglected archaeological landscape will now be preserved after being declared a Class A Area of Archaeological Importance by the Malta Environment…
Thousands of previously unknown prehistoric stone structures have been found in some of the most remote and unexplored regions of the Middle…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…