The World Before Us

The world watched with horror on April 15 2019, when a fire engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

We are a territorial species, and wars are usually fought over land.

I recently wrote about the discovery of a new human species following the recovery of DNA from a fragment of bone from Denisova Cave in Siberia.

Who were in fact, the first humans to reach the Americas, when did they get there and what did they find?

Tourists throng to the Greek theatre at Epidaurus, but very few venture further to the nearby shore, where, standing on a promontory on our first visit to Greece, my brother and I made out an...

Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious of monuments. It has puzzled visitors for centuries and has a prominent place in folklore. To this day, it attracts thousands to celebrate the summer solstice.

The Shroud of Turin has been described as "the world’s most studied archaeological artefact".

The island of Sveti Ivan lies just 350km north of Istanbul, formerly Constantinople.

One of my most memorable cruises as a guest speaker took us to Kerch, where today Putin’s infamous bridge links Russia to the Ukraine.

Not many people have had their name adopted into the English language.

We are staying in our Greek whānau’s villa on the shore of the Aegean.

I have always wanted to visit Hallstatt, a prehistoric site that his given its name to the early Iron Age in Europe.

Archaeology can be both deadly dull and, if you are fortunate, incredibly exciting.

In 1957, my brother Richard and I travelled on our 59cc NSU mopeds from our home in Wimbledon to central France to spend our summer digging in the cave of Arcy-sur-Cure.

The first issue of the journal Nature was published on November 4, 1869, costing fourpence.

As digital communication takes over, so letters are now few and far between.

A few years ago while cruising the Aegean, we sailed into the massive crater, now an arm of the sea, that formed when Santorini erupted.