Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
In Alaska, the cremated remains have been found of a three- year-old child who might have been one of the earliest inhabitants…
The cause of the sudden collapse in AD 1350 of the Viking settlement established in Western Greenland by Eric the Red in…
Scandinavian and British experts meeting at an academic conference in Reykjavík have been debating the origin of the 12th-century Lewis Chessmen, a…
A well shaft that was dug by the first English colonists at Jamestown when they arrived in May 1607 was backfilled in…
As the Arab Spring flooded through Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the old political order was swept away – and with it went Egyptology’s…
A strange statue standing guard near the Sistine Chapel in Rome intrigues travel writer Nigel McGilchrist. Could the Vatican be sitting on…
China’s prehistoric site at Hemudu awakens memories of Neolithic sites in South East Asia – and admiration for current Chinese archaeology.…
Francophile David Miles pulls on his hiking boots, and sets off in search of Neolithic farmers in the South of France.…
I have returned to Knidos after 40 years. Across the decades you forget the outlines of the trenches and the stratigraphic relationships…
Two decades have passed since the American archaeologist and anthropologist Michael Coe published Breaking the Maya Code (1992). This told the dramatic…
There have been many Romes. From the earliest scattered huts on the Palatine to the frenetic modern metropolis, the Eternal City has…
A new exhibition in New York reveals the secrets of another strikingly cosmopolitan city, one with a long and turbulent past.…