Mystery surrounds the discovery of KV-63…
Scientists reveal the cause of deadly Athenian plague…
Visitors to Athens tend to spend most of their time pursuing the remains of the great Classical city. They will probably note…
Excavations in the hilltop town reveal Roman defensive wall still standing to its full height and help to date the town…
Biological and artistic evidence suggests that dwarfs held a privilaged position in Ancient Egyptian society…
Egypt – How a lost civilisation was rediscovered. Joyce Tyldesley BBC Books, £17.99 In 1400 BC, the three pyramids at Giza, were…
In the 1870s, the German grocer Heinrich Schliemann decided to devote the wealth he had accumulated in grocery to go and dig…
A report from the British School at Rome on the major project to conserve the results of earlier examinations…
Richard Hodges reports from the land of multi-storey mud-brick architecture, known to the Romans as Arabia Felix…
‘Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A…
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'…