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
Volunteers help British Museum in crowdsourcing archeology project
Thousands log on to transcribe handwritten catalogue dating back to 18th century and put 30,000 ancient objects online
Tomb raider: enter the British Museum’s underground mummy store
From Edgar Allan Poe to Scooby Doo, culture is cursed with the ancient Egyptian dead. Jonathan Jones visits the British Museum’s mummy store to unwrap our fascination
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
Britain’s oldest settlement is Amesbury not Thatcham, say scientists
Archaeologists discover Wiltshire site is forerunner to Stonehenge and has been continually occupied since 8,820BC
Neanderthals were not less intelligent than modern humans, scientists find
Researchers say there is no evidence that modern humans’ cognitive superiority led to demise of Neanderthals
Ancient Rome’s tap water heavily contaminated with lead, researchers say
Supply became contaminated as it passed through giant network of lead pipes that distributed water around city, scientists believe
Archeologists’ findings may prove Rome a century older than thought
As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC
Egypt, why to go now
Turmoil in Egypt has triggered a sharp fall in tourist numbers, but it is still safe, and if you go now you’ll have its treasures all to yourself
Lost first world war training battlefield discovered in Hampshire
Elaborate trench network was identified from old aerial photographs on land that is still owned by Ministry of Defence