Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed…
Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices…
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man…
A set of ancient silverware is discovered at Pompeii…
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
John Crookshank on Roman Spain, with a focus on Mérida…
Over the years there have been several magic moments during my digging career. Trowelling down to reveal my first mosaic in a…
A global superpower attacks a small ‘rogue state’. The superpower – arrogant, self-righteous, supremely confident – swaggers in. It is bound to…
In 1703, Robert Drury, aged 16, was shipwrecked on the south coast of Madagascar. For the next 13 years he was a…