When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
A team of archaeologists, working Peruvian Andes, has hailed as ‘sensational’ the discovery of three ‘ancestor stones’ on an isolated Andean mountainside.…
The shallow waters of the inland sea known as the Persian Gulf might well hold the evidence of the earliest human migrations…
Everyday concerns in ancient Egypt still resonate today, according to the latest issue of The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,…
Questions are being asked about the cultural priorities of the Italian Government in the wake of recent structural damage to the ancient…
Archaeologists and soil scientists have come up with the novel theory that the open areas conventionally described as ‘ritual plazas’ in Mayan cities…
Robots roam at Teotihuacan, Mexico Robots for exploring deep under pyramids are a new fashion in archaeology. One revealed a hidden door…
For years I have directed small armies of excavators through a project manager, so returning to the role of quartermaster (and co-director)…
To sail the Turkish Coast is to embark on an historical and archaeological adventure that spans over 3,000 years of history. It…
I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had…
The modern country of Libya – the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – encompasses one of the richest parts of the Roman…
In 1819, the English physician and polymath Thomas Young – best known to archaeologists for his work in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs…
In 1978, a year before the Soviets foolishly decided to invade Afghanistan, a team of Russian and Afghan archaeologists were excavating a…