During the mid-7th century AD there was an abrupt economic shift in north-west Europe, particularly around the North Sea, with silver coinage largely replacing the use of gold. Recent research has suggested ..read more

Research recently published in the journal Britannia has proposed a way to estimate the possible population of Roman Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), in Hampshire, suggesting that the town may have included many more ..read more

A new project led by researchers at the University of Oxford, which has collated evidence from around the world, has shown that the human brain can remain preserved in diverse environments for ..read more

Roman residence revealed A remarkably preserved domus, dating to the late Republican period, has been excavated in Rome between the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum. First discovered in 2018, the site ..read more

This is a medieval or early post-medieval silver pendant, set with jet, which was found last August by a metal-detectorist near Bletchingley in Surrey. It is probably a pilgrim souvenir dating to ..read more

Zenobia of Egypt: when the Queen of Palmyra ruled the Land of the Pharaohs The last Cleopatras: their legacy as women of power Precise construction of funerary structures: Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan) Predynastic art: Egypt’s earliest imagery Rediscovering Egypt: the Harrogate Collection in Swansea The meaning of Joseph’s Egyptian name Travels in an antique land: two under-visited sites in Abydos ..read more

Barbara A Boczar explores the imagery of Egypt’s Naqada periods ..read more

Antonio Tomás Mozas Calvache, Jose Luis Pérez, and José Miguel Gómez show how the creation of 3D models of three adjacent tombs highlights the extraordinary precision of Twelfth Dynasty tomb-builders ..read more

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones completes his series on the later Ptolemaic queens and assesses their legacy as women of power in the ancient world ..read more

It was not just an important food item for the ancient Egyptians: milk had magical properties ..read more