Richard Hodges explores the history and archaeology of the Spanish Basque Country.…
Nearly 20 years of digging in and writing about Albania's ancient sites has left a vivid impression on archaeologist and traveller Oliver…
The dig The Hypogeum Ħal-Saflieni was discovered in 1902 when builders, working on a new housing development, fell through its roof. The huge underground structure…
How often do you visit a rock-art site armed only with binoculars? You do at Bangudae, on South Korea's east coast, and…
Exploring Iron Age burial mounds on the Trail of Princes, Patrick Skinner sets out from the country's capital on a voyage of…
Anna Faherty goes in search of the wide open spaces and ancient markers of Mongolia’s remote hinterland.…
The dig The prehistoric settlement at Lepenski Vir – the Whirlpool of Lepena – lies on a limestone shelf beside the River…
Richard Hodges explores the Roman villa at Piazza Armerina, home to the beautiful 'bikini girl' mosaics.…
Revealing a grim cargo of elite Viking warriors…
Strabo, in his opus Geography, writes dismissively that the Nabataeans ‘consider dead bodies as they do dung, just as Heraclitus says: “Corpses…
An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret…
The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.…