When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called 'most polluted place on earth'…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas…
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…
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…