7 game-changing finds that captured the archaeological imagination.
7 discoveries that changed the archaeological world
April 24, 2012
Filed Under: Great Discoveries, Seven Wonders
Gustafson at Oseberg
March 30, 2012
Filed Under: Issue 52, Great Discoveries, Norway
Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas at the beginning of the Viking Age.
Knossos
January 5, 2012
Filed Under: Issue 51, Great Discoveries, Greece
Results of the excavations at Knossos surpassed all expectations. Evans revealed a vast palace complex of Middle Bronze Age date , 1300 rooms connected by a network of corridors…
Troy: Great Excavations
November 5, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 50, Great Discoveries, Turkey
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology aged 46 after making his fortune in business.
Royal Tombs of Ur
September 3, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 49, Great Discoveries, Iraq
From the underground chambers of the Royal Tombs emerged a picture of a civilisation that was at once dazzling and sinister
Peking Man
July 3, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 48, China, Great Discoveries
Peking Man represents the spread of a new species of hominid, Homo erectus, in an earlier ‘Out of Africa’ migration beginning about a million years ago
Abbeville stone tools
May 3, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 47, France, Great Discoveries
The Abbeville tools – in context – proved the antiquity of human beings
Palatine Hill
March 3, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 46, Great Discoveries, Italy
The remains – remarkably unprepossessing amid the spectacular ruins of classical Rome all around – comprise postholes, wall-slots, and drainage gullies, defining three small structures.
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Machu Picchu
January 3, 2011
Filed Under: Issue 45, Great Discoveries, Peru
Machu Picchu symbolises the extent, technical skill, and productivity of the Inca Empire in its heyday.
Petra
November 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 44, Great Discoveries, Jordan
Before 1812, Petra was one of the ancient world’s ‘lost cities’: it was known from historical references, but the site had not been located on the ground.
Rosetta Stone
September 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 43, Egypt, Great Discoveries
How did a slab of black granite become the key to deciphering hieroglyphs
Pompeii
July 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 42, Great Discoveries, Italy
We know more about Pompeii than any other Roman town. It is the benchmark, and yet we still have so much to learn…
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Akrotiri
May 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 41, Great Discoveries, Greece
Akrotiri is an archaeological monument to the rich commerce, connections, and culture of the Middle Bronze Age Mediterranean
Vindolanda Tablets
March 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 40, Great Discoveries, UK
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal ink-marks…
Mohenjo-daro
January 3, 2010
Filed Under: Issue 39, Great Discoveries, Pakistan
Mohenjo-daro represents an entire Early Bronze Age civilization on a par with those of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Anyang, The first Chinese Civilization
November 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 38, China, Great Discoveries
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex
Sutton Hoo
September 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 37, Great Discoveries, UK
The Sutton Hoo ship cemetery was one of the ideological forging-houses of early Medieval kingship in Europe. Here we discover how kings were first made.
Tell-El-Amarna
July 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 36, Egypt, Great Discoveries
Basic questions about New Kingdom Egypt – about town layout, building techniques, urban economy, arts and crafts, everyday life, and much else – can be answered at Tell el-Amarna.
Great Zimbabwe
May 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 35, Great Discoveries, Zimbabwe
The ruins of Great Zimbabwe extend over 720 hectares of rocky hill and valley in south-central Zimbabwe. Yet it’s origins were often denied…
Linear B Tablets
March 3, 2009
Filed Under: Issue 34, Great Discoveries, Greece
When Arthur Evans started digging at Knossos on Crete in 1900, a major aim was to find inscriptions and prove that the ancient Cretans had been literate.
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