The Thracians made a keen impression on both their neighbours and the archaeological record, but how much do we really know about…
Richard Hodges explores Byzantine Kastoria in Greece…
Babar Javed takes us to Borobudur, Java…
Alexandra has suffered badly. The once magnificent city has been a quarry for builders throughout the ages. In AD 836 it was…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
When Arthur Evans started digging at Knossos on Crete in 1900, a major aim was to find inscriptions and prove that the…
An extended feature on Messene, the best preserved city in the southern Peloponnese…
In 1694, HMS Sussex was lost in the Straits of Gibraltar, buried deep beneath the sea…
The city of Zabid was a cultural and political centre of Medieval Yemen. The archaeologists can finally reveal the story of this…
An Iron Age slab found in south-east Turkey conatains first known written mention of the soul…
The adoption of green beads used for jewllery coincides with the adoption of agriculture…
Five lines of faded characters written in ink and divided by black lines on a scrap of pottery measuring 15 by 15cm…