The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age…
John Crookshank on Roman Spain, with a focus on Mérida…
A detailed look at the finest mosaics discovered anywhere in the Roman world for a generation, recently discovered in the desert city…
In early June a glittering European Awards Ceremony was held in Bergen, Norway to celebrate the 2005 European Union Prize for Cultural…
Every time an archaeologist looks at non-élite everyday data, this is heralded as something special, unusual, praise-worthy, and in the case of…
The remains of some 700 ancient mine-shafts and 200 ore-processing facilities have been discovered at Laurion in south-east Africa…
Excavations are underway at the soldiers tomb in Petra, Jordna. Here there is both a tomb and a ritual dining room…
Deep in the heart of Transylvania, at the long dead colonia of Apulum, the archaeologists have been uncovering a shrine to the…
200 miles inland from the coast of Libya, Roman influence elevated the Garamantes into living a surprisingly civilised existence…
Two quarries in Egypt's Eastern Desert supplied much of the best building stone for imperial Rome…