When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
Though huge distances separate the islands of Fiji from the nearest continents, the Lapita people made the 3,000km journey around 1100BC…
The Buddhas of Bamiyan have revealed oil paints being used to decorate associated caves in the mid 7th century AD…
Archaeologists make a surprise find on the bed of the River Rhône…
The University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from…
There is no shortage of books on Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and the Amarna period. However, many try to focus on some aspect of…
The Maya civilization of Mesoamerica encompassed the entirety of what are now the countries of Guatemala and Belize and large parts of…
Classic Maya ceramics are among the most intriguing and valuable sources to reconstruct Ancient Maya society and life. No books have survived…
Once a thriving Iron Age settlement, the city and its necropolis is now offering a wealth of evidence about the elusive Vaccaei…
Latest finds from the Ryukyu islands, including a series of royal burials…
Scott M Fitzpatrick takes us to one of the oldest-known cemeteries from the Pacific, at Palau, Micronesia…
Here Neil Faulkner presents a portrait of Hadrian from his new book Rome: empire of the eagles…
Crystal skulls previously thought to have been made by the Aztecs are revealed to be only 150 years old…