The Omari Mosque of Gaza.
Mohammed Alafrangi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology.
An artist’s depiction of the temple at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz as it would have looked in the first century AD.
Marie Millet, INRAP
There may have been a main god or goddess at many temple sites, but there was a clear tendency to worship a range of deities.
Richborough Roman Fort with the newly reconstructed gateway.
Courtesy of English Heritage
The gate has been built on the site of an actual Roman gateway, thought to date to the invasion of Britain in AD 43.
The Colchester vase, dating to the later second century AD.
Following Hadrian/Flickr
The Colchester vase contains the remains a male of about 40 years of age and not of local origin. Could he have been a gladiator?
The wooden phallus discovered at Vindolanda. Wooden Phallus
Courtesy of The Vindolanda Trust.
There would have been plenty of time during the long, dark, Northern nights for ancient Roman shoemakers to indulge in side hustles.
Archaeology students and ULAS staff from University of Leicester carefully clean the fully exposed Trojan War mosaic.
© ULAS
Rutland’s Roman villa caused a media storm when it was first discovered in 2020 – now researchers have returned to uncover even more surprises.
People took long voyages to start a new life in Britain in early medieval times.
Dm_Cherry/Shutterstock
People didn’t live in insulated communities when the Roman empire fell. Villagers buried people who migrated from far away as one of their own.
Diana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Postdlf via Wikimedia Commons
A scholar of Greek mythology explains the naming of NASA’s missions after mythological figures and why the name Artemis is indicative of a more diverse era of space exploration.