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Who on earth was Horemheb?
Turning the spotlight on a forgotten pharaoh.
Charlotte Booth
Warriors of the Plains
On the trail of the 19th-century artist George Catlin who painted wonderfully colourful portraits of Native Americans.
Bruce Watson
Uruk: the world's first megacity
The subject of a fascinating exhibition in Berlin.
Dirk Wicke
Root and branch
From the Garden of Eden onwards, trees – mythical, metaphorical and real.
Lindsay Fulcher
Consulting the oracle
Delphi was not the only place the ancient Greeks to discover what the future held.
Richard Stoneman
Love actually
Sleeping Eros is the subject of a charming exhibition in New York.
Seán Hemingway
The healing saints of Santa Maria Antiqua
Beautiful wall-paintings in a 6th-century church in the Roman Forum have been restored.
Dalu Jones
A monumental decade
Which world-famous sites has Global Heritage Fund helped preserve?
Lindsay Fulcher
A lesson from the past
Evidence from the little-visited site of Umm ar-Rasas in Jordan shows that people of different faiths once coexisted peacefully.
Stefan Smith
Going head to head with race
What was Flinders Petrie trying to prove when he made casts of how foreigners living in Ancient Egypt were depicted?
Debbie Challis

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