The Thracians made a keen impression on both their neighbours and the archaeological record, but how much do we really know about…
David Mason writes about the unusual excavation techniques he learnt as an excavator in Japan…
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…
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'…
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 collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…