The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
Much of the Indus Valley civilisation was revealed to the world on Sir John Marshall’s watch as director general of the Archaeological…
Since it was first excavated in 1748, the drama of Pompeii has excited the imaginations of archaeologists and tourists alike. Our impression…
This is an excellent account of the rise and fall of a great ancient civilisation. It starts in Phoenicia and describes the…
Peking Man represents the spread of a new species of hominid, Homo erectus, in an earlier ‘Out of Africa’ migration beginning about…
The Sirte Basin in northern Libya, the current battleground for Colonel Gaddafi’s troops and rebel civilian forces, is no stranger to conflict.…
China’s Han Empire was brought to its knees by powerful nomadic tribes. But just when defeat seemed inevitable, an ingenious new approach…
The house-proud Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük inadvertantly frustrated archaeologists by keeping their homes clean. Now Lisa-Marie Shillito examines an aspect of…
There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…
Packed in a crate with artefacts from the Middle East, the eery figures arrived in Montreal, Canada, in the mid 1950s. A…
The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this part of North Africa has a troubled…
First ‘unequivocal proof for pre-Clovis occupation of America’ has been found by researchers at Texas A&M University. Flint knife blades, chisels, and…
When first discovered in 2001 by the archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, the mural-covered room at San Bartolo, a remote and…