Greek archaeologists have discovered a burial at the ancient Macedonian capital of Aigai with two large silver vessels and other artifacts. This travel piece suggests visiting Sudan’s pyramids instead of Egypt’s, and hiking Bolivia’s Cordillera Apolobamba rather than Peru’s Inca Trail. Here’s a recap of work at El Coporo in Guanajuato, which is being prepared […]

The York Museums Trust in York and the British Museum have purchased a ninth-century Viking hoard from its discoverers. Fragments of a recently found 2,000-year-old gilded bronze equestrian statue of the Emperor Augustus were unveiled today by German archaeologists. Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel on May 30, 1806, in Logan, Kentucky. But […]