Nomad Scythian herders roamed vast areas spanning the Central Asian steppes during the Iron Age, approximately from the 9th to the 1st century BCE (Before Common Era). These livestock pastoralists, who lived on wagons covered by tents, left their mark in
Working in northern Iraq at the site of Qalatga Darband, The British Museum is training Iraqi archaeologists to preserve and study their county’s threatened heritage
Italica is a well-preserved Roman city located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres north of Seville in Spain.
Felix dies natalis, Roma! (Happy birthday, Rome!) This week on the 21st of April is the traditional date given for the founding of Rome.
When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to modern-day Iraq, and 1,500 miles south to the Sahara Desert. He
Fake objects Nightingale rated highly to join ancient Egyptian amulets she thought ‘shabby’ at World Museum in Liverpool
Tiny wooden figurines have stood upright "weaving" at appropriately sized looms for more than 2,100 years in a Chinese tomb containing the remains of a middle-age woman, a new study finds.
Archaeologists exploring a mysterious tomb in Egypt were in for a surprise when they discovered more than 1,000 statues and eight mummies. The incredible haul was found in an ancient noble's tomb on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.
UNTIL NOW, A HEAVY GLASS PANE WEIGHING APPROXIMATELY 80 KILOS HAS PREVENTED A VALUABLE, CENTURIES-OLD SILK TUNIC ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT AMBROSE FROM BEING RESTORED IN MILAN.
During my visit to the Manisa Museum in western Turkey at the beginning of the 1990s, I showed a photo of Kilia-type idols to the director Hasan Dedeoğlu and his assistant Rafet Dinç. “We have two broken pieces in the museum,” said Dinç, br
The martial figures buried with the first Chinese emperor were discovered in 1974. But the tomb they guard hasn’t even been opened, writes Jonathan Glancey.
As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.
Meet the experts behind the Past and the Curious, who will be digging deep to bring Guardian readers the inside scoop on archaeology and anthropology
King Idrimi is getting digitized and his autobiography is as relevant as ever
ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITIES OF BRISTOL AND DURHAM AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM ARE USING CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY TO CRACK A CONUNDRUM SURROUNDING THE ANCIENT TRADE IN OSTRICH EGGS.
