At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Richard Hodges visits architect Richard Meier's new building that encloses the Ara Pacis, the monument to peace erected by Emperor Augustus…
Anniversaries are always good for the reading public, as publishers issue sumptuous books which at other times are often uneconomic. It’s the…
A rich feast of books crossed my desk this year. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to read most of them.…
In the way in which the National Museum Wales portrays Welsh identity, it stands out on the international scene as a beacon…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…
The cover says it all – or seems to. A gung-ho romp through the sandy wastes of the Arabian Empty Quarter in…
A new exhibition in Hamburg, Germany is investigating one of the worlds most notorious women…
We look down upon 8m of stratigraphy at the caravanserai of Gor Khuttree in North Pakistan…
Excavations at the Late Kushite city of Dangeil in Sudan reveal a temple of Amun, and a massive bread-making facility…
A medieval site of massive industry: the once-booming and cosmopolitan city of Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates, Syria…
The archaeology of post-medieval fishing and trading sites along the coasts of Iceland…