At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Since its discovery by the British officer Tony Clunn in the late 1980s, the German site of Kalkriese in Lower Saxony, north…
This low-relief limestone carving, dating to c.2400 BC, formed part of a larger votive wall plaque in a Sumerian temple in southern…
A study of the architecture of ancient Greek temples and sanctuaries dedicated to healing has determined that these spaces were deliberately made…
For thousands of years, areas along the north coast of Peru have been subject to huge flooding as a result of El…
Three leather balls have been discovered in the prehistoric Yanghai cemetery in north-west China that pre-date by several centuries all existing evidence…
A set of human footprints found in an ancient lake deposit in the south-west of the Nefud Desert is believed to represent…
On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…
When hotel construction work unearthed extraordinary mosaics, the owners decided to create a new archaeological park. It showcases what is believed to…
The site of La Hoya in north-central Iberia was a thriving political, social, and economic centre in the Iron Age, but this…
What was it like for a barbarian to become Roman? In the book that I am writing in my retirement, or semi-retirement,…
Journeying south from the Serbian Danube presents an opportunity to revel in Roman opulence, as Oliver Gilkes reveals. The Danubian provinces of…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…