At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Richard Hodges travels to the 'armpit of Tuscany' to give us his inimitable perspective on its archaeology…
Oliver Stone’s new epic Alexander has hit the headlines. The New York Post has labelled it ‘Alexander the Gay’, and US Christians…
The Temple of Jerusalem is one of the most important non-existing buildings in the world. Just what was it and why was…
‘On a cold day in 1958’ writes Michael Balter ‘the history of archaeology, and of our understanding of our own origins, was…
Excavated in the 1960's, could this be the worlds oldest town?…
A report on the shock discovery of a new minature species of human, homo floresiensis, who lived on the island of Flores…
Two quarries in Egypt's Eastern Desert supplied much of the best building stone for imperial Rome…
Two quarries in Egypt's eastern desert supplied much of the best building material for Imperial Rome…
The discovery of the tomb of King Muryong…
The necropolis of the noble family of the Gaya…
The most successful of Korea's three kingdoms…
Hillforts on the frontier of rival kingdoms…