• On the trail of the legions: a Roman battlegroup in Switzerland
• The lost city of Ocomtún: searching for Maya settlements
• Execution sites in Sweden: an archaeology of capital punishment
• Archive images: seeing the past in the past
• Italy: the ‘Monster Park’ at Bomarzo
• Norway: researching whalers’ burials
The discovery of a Roman fortification high in the Alps is the most recent development in a remarkable series of findings that allow us to trace the progress of a legionary battlegroup in the 1st century BC. As well as following part of their march, we can see how they sought to control this mountainous terrain, and where they clashed with local forces, as Hannes Flück told Matthew Symonds.
A team of researchers have confirmed that a Bronze Age arrowhead found 150 years ago in Switzerland was made of iron from a meteorite – but not the meteorite they expected. The discovery was made during a recent study of…
• La Tène: rethinking a legendary site
• Troy’s neighbour: the powerful prehistoric city at Liman Tepe
• Landscape and legend: exploring ancient myths in Sicily
• Indiana Jones and the nature of archaeology
• Kefalonia: the buccaneer and the castle
When La Tène was discovered more than 150 years ago, the site gave its name to the second half of the Iron Age across much of Europe, and objects of La Tène type are often equated with the Celts. But what was found at La Tène? Andrew Fitzpatrick and Marc-Antoine Kaeser explore the changing interpretations of this iconic site.
The Kaiseraugst amphitheatre was discovered in the Rheinfelden district at a site known to have been the location of a Roman quarry
The remains were revealed during excavations of an abandoned Roman quarry where the construction of a new boathouse for the Basel Rowing Club is scheduled
Inlaid with silver and brass and buried under 20 inches of soil, it was possibly placed as an offering to the gods.
How much can we know about the role of women in Roman society? Natalya Kahn examines inscriptions from Geneva to build up a picture of their experiences of life within the Roman Empire.
The Swiss army of the late Middle Ages ruthlessly used terrain to its advantage and had a genius for knowing which battles not to fight.
• Tantra: an archaeology of enlightenment
• War, plague, & pollution from a European ice core
• Roman mosaics in Turkey
• Cedrocucho, Peru: pre-Inca farming of the rainforest?
• Arctic archaeology
• A deity’s demise in Albania
Lead pollution produced by 12th-century mines in Britain can be seen in Alpine ice cores, new research reports – directly mirroring historical records and demonstrating the impact of political events of the time. Lead-silver ores have been mined for centuries,…