At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Richard Hodges reports from the land of multi-storey mud-brick architecture, known to the Romans as Arabia Felix…
New clues point to location of Odysseus' island…
To mark the 70th anniversary of his death the Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition on his life…
Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices…
The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
The excavations at the Turkish site of Bogazkoy, capital city of the Hittites…
A close look at the copious Roman artefacts found at the bottom of the sacred spring at Bourbonne-les-Bains in France…
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called 'most polluted place on earth'…
A set of ancient silverware is discovered at Pompeii…
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…