Bulldozing new roads, using buildings as weapons … to the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, city warfare leaves clues in the very architecture. He’s piecing together the evidence
The Ajanta cave murals: ‘nothing less than the birth of Indian art’
The paintings are possibly the finest surviving picture galleries from the ancient world. Now, the oldest in two of the caves – hidden for decades – have been painstakingly restored to reveal their true beauty
Five great shipwrecks that came back from the deep
Marine archaeologists think they have located the remains of Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti. It joins an impressive list of other historic wrecks that have been found recently
Gathered around the bronze age Hurlers
Minions, Cornwall: Kneeling volunteers work with trowels, intent on uncovering the mysterious pathway of quartz, last revealed in the 1930s, that seems to link two of the stone circles
A tiny corpse by the Devil’s Jumps
South Downs Way, West Sussex: Constructed about 3,500 years ago, these bronze age barrows are oriented upon the setting sun on Midsummer Day
Who else is buried in Richard III’s Leicester car park cemetery?
A stone coffin was found near the Plantagenet monarch’s, and archaeologists think they have a good idea of who it may be
History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax
In 1747, the sensational discovery of an ancient chronicle redrew the map of Roman Britain and gave us place names we still use today. There was only one problem. It was a sham
RIP Time Team, you were a national treasure
Let’s celebrate the memory of a show that charmed and educated through bejumpered boffins at toil in soil
Turkey wages ‘cultural war’ in pursuit of its archaeological treasures
Ankara accused of blackmailing museums into returning artefacts while allowing excavation sites to be destroyed
Rebirth of the Viking warship that may have helped Canute conquer the seas
“The largest Viking warship ever found, it was discovered by chance in 1996 at Roskilde. It is estimated that building it would have taken up […]