CWA’s travel focus on the archaeological and heritage highlights of northern China
Morocco, an Archaeologist in Casablanca
Susan Searight writes of her work in Morocco including her involvement with a project that uses rock-art to explore ongoing climate change
Dakhleh, Exploring an Oasis
The wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt
London 1606 to Virginia 1607
The early history of the first English settlement in America – as revealed in a new exhibition at London’s Museum in Docklands
Georg Gerster: Tempus fugit, Aerial Photographs of
Breath-taking aerial photographs of world site – including the Acropolis at Athens – taken by Georg Gerster and exhibited at the British Museum
Myotragus Balearicus, Extinction of Mouse-Goats
The tiny ‘mouse-goat’ evolved in relative isolation on the Balearic islands over some five million years but died out around 5000 years ago. Why?
Venice, Archaeology and Architecture
Chief Archaeological Adviser to English Heritage, David Miles, considers the archaeology and architecture of Venice and the impact of tourism thereon
Oldest Writing Discovered on Boulder
The oldest known writing in the Americas has been discovered dating to 900 BC
Austria, Life as an Early Farmer
Two ancient sites in Austria are investigated to discover what was life was like for some of Europe’s earliest farmers
Pompeii Paint Problem
New scientific research is attempting to discern why Pompeii’s paintings are turning black after excavation
Cape Styllo
Richard Hodges sends his regular archaeological news, this time from Cape Styllo, a ‘no-man’s land’ between Greece and Albania
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Thames and Hudson, £19.95 How powerful were women in Ancient Egypt? To judge by the number of queens that are known, many of them were surprisingly powerful. In the New Kingdom (1539-1096 BC), as Egypt became the richest land of the Mediterranean world, Queen consorts maintained a [...]
Bankers of Puteoli, The
The Bankers of Puteoli: Finance, Trade and Industry in the Roman World David Jones Tempus, £19.99 In 1955, a hoard of over a hundred wax writing tablets was discovered when a motorway was being constructed 500 yards south of the Stabian Gate at Pompeii, in an area known as the Agri Murecini. Publication of the [...]
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