Travel guides & inspiration
Portugal preserves megalithic tombs, Iron Age hillforts, Roman bridges, and Palaeolithic cave art across an archaeologically dense landscape.
From Harappan cities to rock-cut Buddhist caves, India's archaeological landscape spans five millennia of continuous civilisation.
The Greek world of antiquity extended from Spain to Afghanistan — these ten sites, from Agrigento's temples to Ai Khanum in Central Asia, preserve Greek colonial and Hellenistic culture at its most impressive beyond the Greek mainland.
From Poverty Point's 3,500-year-old earthworks to Cahokia's Monks Mound, Chaco Canyon's great houses, and Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings, the United States preserves a diverse pre-Columbian archaeological record of world significance.
Read more →From the Bronze Age burial mounds of Ban Chiang to the Khmer temples of Phimai and Phanom Rung and the abandoned capitals of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya, Thailand's archaeological landscape spans five thousand years.
Read more →From the Bronze Age proto-city of Arkaim to the Scythian kurgans of the Eurasian steppe, the Greek colonies of the Black Sea, and the medieval capital at Veliky Novgorod, Russia's archaeological landscape is vast and varied.
Read more →From the Iron Age pile-dwelling at Biskupin to the medieval royal capital at Krakow and the salt mines of Wieliczka, Poland's archaeological heritage spans three thousand years and includes some of central Europe's most significant sites.
Read more →From the temples of Bagan to the Pyu ancient cities and the palaces of Mrauk-U, Myanmar preserves one of South East Asia's richest and least-visited archaeological landscapes.
Read more →Malta's Neolithic temples are the oldest free-standing stone structures in the world — the archipelago packs more prehistoric monuments per square kilometre than almost anywhere on earth, alongside Phoenician, Roman, and medieval heritage.
Read more →From the Jomon shell middens of the Mesolithic to the Yayoi rice-farming villages, the giant burial mounds of the Kofun emperors, and the buried Nara capital, Japan's prehistoric and protohistoric record is richer than most visitors expect.
Read more →From the world's oldest figurative art in Sulawesi to Borobudur's Buddhist cosmos and the Homo floresiensis caves of Flores, Indonesia's archaeological sites span two million years across an archipelago of extraordinary diversity.
Read more →Honduras holds the magnificent Maya city of Copan, a series of important pre-Columbian sites in the Ulua and Comayagua valleys, and the recently mapped Ciudad Blanca complex in the Mosquitia jungle.
Read more →Guatemala's Peten jungle and highland valleys hold some of the greatest cities of Maya civilisation — Tikal, El Mirador, Yaxha, Quirigua, and the sites of the first Maya florescence are all here.
Read more →Stratigraphy is the fundamental principle of archaeological interpretation — the reading of layered deposits to establish chronological sequences — and the Harris Matrix is the formal system for recording and analysing stratigraphic relationships.
Read more →Stonehenge has been studied for centuries and its mysteries are still generating new research — a summary of what the archaeology actually demonstrates about its construction, function, and the people who built it.
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