The History of Coins: From the First Coins to the Last Penny
The history of coins began in Lydia in the late 7th century BC. Follow coinage from electrum lions to Roman silver, steam presses and the last US penny.
Invisible eland identified from 60,000-year-old ochre-rich sediment
Ancient proteins reveal hidden aspects of technical and symbolic behaviors of early humans.
The 2026 Battlefield Archaeology of the Battle of Cerignola (1503)
On April 28, 1503, a shallow trench cut through vineyards outside Cerignola rendered mounted chivalry obsolete. For five centuries, its exact location has been guessed at, its archaeology ignored,...
Rewriting History: Before Mesopotamia and Egypt
Stories of discovery: Anatolia's Neolithic wonders and why we need to take a new look at the birth of civilization.
Herculaneum: The Final Hours
A journalist's personal journey into the last cataclysmic day of an ancient Roman city.
Pericles, the Parthenon and the Golden Age of Athens
An Interview with Dr. Paul Cartlege
Sipontum, the Archaeological Site and Invisible Port City of Ancient Daunia
A longue durée urban, port and landscape system in the heart of northern Puglia and Italy's history.
Names for the Dead: Identity, Memory, and Rome in the Cemeteries of Montebelluna
Burials demonstrate an evidential truth — cultural, political and social change are not simple and linear.
If You Want to Write….Move to Rome
The city of Rome was the place to go for the great ancient Roman writers.
Reconstructing Galatia Without a Native Text
What the Celts of Central Anatolia Left Behind
Palenque, a Great Maya Metropolis
Palenque still ranks among the most beautiful cities of the ancient Maya.
700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost ecosystem shared by early humans in the levant
Ancient tooth reveals a lost world inhabited by giant elephants and early toolmakers.
