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What can be done to stop Syria’s unprecedented scramble for antiquities? William Christou reports

He bit not one, not two but three police officers

Chariots, cauldrons and ceremonial spears – over 800 items unearthed near the village of Melsonby in North Yorkshire "one of the most important and exciting" Iron Age hoards ever found in the UK, say ...

Somehow both a celebrated archeologist and a professional disgrace. Oh, Aurel Stein, what have you done?

Former Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill gives her reaction

How the urban cultures of ancient Mesopotamia formed the foundation for our modern world.