The Roman city of Pompeii may seem frozen in time, but archaeologists are trying to bring it bang up to date with technology and shining a light on forgotten stories, writes Elisabetta Povoledo
The patterns we see in the archaeological record suggest that progress may have been highly dependent on individuals, rather than being the inevitable outcome of larger cultural forces, writes Nicholas R Longrich
No doubt this will come as a shock to the 21st-century British nativists — but those who came over after 1,000BC were genetically most similar to ancient inhabitants of France, writes Franz Lidz
