At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
Over the years there have been several magic moments during my digging career. Trowelling down to reveal my first mosaic in a…
John Crookshank on Roman Spain, with a focus on Mérida…
This is the seventh edition of Coe’s Maya, a readable and enjoyable richly illustrated introduction to the New World civilisation. Here, the…
In 1703, Robert Drury, aged 16, was shipwrecked on the south coast of Madagascar. For the next 13 years he was a…
A global superpower attacks a small ‘rogue state’. The superpower – arrogant, self-righteous, supremely confident – swaggers in. It is bound to…
Campaign to rescue Roman bath site at Allianoi…
G.J. Tassie of the Cultural Heritage Organisation, looks at some of the recent undertakings in Egypt…
The latest discoveries at KV5, the largest ancient Egyptian tomb ever discovered in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor…
A detailed look at the finest mosaics discovered anywhere in the Roman world for a generation, recently discovered in the desert city…