October 2023
These scrolls were illegible for 2000 years. A uni student read one with AI
The ancient scrolls were buried in the ash at Herculaneum, near Pompeii. Luke Farritor became the first person to read from them in thousands of years.
- Kyle Melnick
October 2021
Roman remains under high-speed rail site hint at ancient family feud
Excavation work in the United Kingdom has revealed the mausoleum of a rural family from the Roman period, including an “unprecedented” set of funerary busts.
- Craig Simpson
April 2021
‘Turkey’s Colosseum’ unearthed in remote fig orchard
A Roman amphitheatre that would have hosted gladiator contests remained undetected because it is mostly buried underground.
- Nick Squires
February 2021
Aussie director wakes up Netflix with sleeper hit ‘The Dig’
Simon Stone explains how he turned a dusty archaeological dig into an engrossing piece of cinema that has improbably topped the Netflix charts.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August 2020
- Opinion
- Mining
Rio Tinto can start to redeem cave blast by keeping relics safe
The mining giant can show belated respect for the Pilbara’s Indigenous heritage by building ‘keeping places’ for salvaged Juukan Gorge artefacts.
- Sue-Anne Wallace
September 2019
Unearthing Germany’s buried treasures
A Celtic warrior and a 3600-year-old calendar are among the remarkable discoveries that have been made following the nation’s reunification in 1990.
- Ute Junker
June 2019
Surprising secrets of Egypt's lost women
British broadcaster and historian Bettany Hughes is fascinated by some famous - and some not so - lives of the ancient world.
- Bettany Hughes