Walking Tours of Archaeological Sites

Ban Non Wat is a cemetery in Thailand, used between about 2100 to 400 BC, and excavated by Charles Higham beginning in 2002. This photo essay shows several of the interments dated to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age.

Monte Verde is the ruins of a small settlement of 20-30 people who built tents and huts, lived in one place year-round and had a very broad hunter-gatherer-fisher subsistence base, in Chile, about 12,000 years ago.

n 1998, the now-late archaeologist Stuart Munro-Hay contacted me and asked if I would move his wonderful website on the history of excavations at Axum to my website. I was happy to be able to do so. The following is an update of Munro-Hay's project, in that it is in a new format, with with some additional figures. I hope he would approve.

The streets of the Roman city of Pompeii have a fascinating story to tell about Roman engineering and life in the ancient doomed city.

Hattusha, the capital city of the Hittite empire, was an ancient city when the Hittite king Anitta conquered it and made it his capital in the mid-18th century BC; the emperor Hattusili III expanded the city between 1265 and 1235 BC, before it was destroyed at the end of the Hittite era about 1200 BC

A guide to some of the architecture and facilities built by the Inca civilization along the 40,000 kilometers of the Inca Road, as it wound through the Andes Mountains of South America.