David Miles journeys to Galicia to see how the regional government is leading the way in Spain in conserving and presenting their archaeological sites
Uruk-Warqa, Iraq
Professor Roger Matthews, gives the low-down on Uruk-Warka in Iraq, seemingly the birth-place of writing and appears in the Bible
Gurob, Unlocking a Royal Harem
Ian Shaw reports on his excavations at the ‘harem’ site of Gurob in the Fayum, Egypt
Kerkouane, Secrets of the Carthaginians revealed
Kerkouane, on the tip of Cap Bon in Tunisia is one of the most extensively excavated of all Carthaginian settlements. What did it look like, and how did the ordinary Carthaginian live? Andrew Selkirk, CWA’s editor-in-chief, visited to discover more. One day in 1952, Charles Saumagne a member of the French Department of Antiquities in [...]
Lawrence of Arabia’s War
The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia’s war: Neil Faulkner reports on the team’s first seasons’ work at Wadi Rutm in Southern Jordan
Rome in AD 200, Essential Guide to
How to survive ancient Rome: a travellers’ low-down according to Philip Matyszak
New World, England’s first view of America
A report on the British Museum’s exhibition A New World: England’s first view of America, featuring the16th century illustrations of America
Royal Academy of Arts: Opulence and Anxiety, Landscape Paintings
Compton Verney, the Grade I-listed mansion house near Stratford-upon-Avon, recently opened as an art and exhibition gallery. It is currently hosting a major exhibition Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape paintings from the Royal Academy of Arts. The paintings on show date from the later 18th century until the present and are by artists including Constable through [...]
Pigs Shed New Light on Human Colonisation
A study of wild and domesticated pigs casts new light on Polynesian migration
Rameses II, Canopic jars
Canopic jars of Rameses II neither Canopic nor Rameses’ but ordinary cosmetic containers
Inca: Excrement Eating Mites Help Unlock the Rise and Fall
CWA looks at how studying mites can reveal a lot about the fate of ancient civilisations
Sicily
Richard Hodges sends news from Sicily and visits sites including Syracuse – one of many extensive Greek planned colonies along the south coast
Rosetta Stone, The
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt John Ray, Profile £15.99 Which object lends its name to internationally known software for teaching languages, to a European space mission aiming to unlock the secrets of the solar system before planets formed, and to a technique for deciphering the human genome, not to speak of [...]
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? Graeme Barker Oxford University Press, HB £80 Why did Foragers become Farmers? Or in archaeological terms, why did the Mesolithic turn into the Neolithic? It was about a generation ago that anthropologists, observing the bushmen in Africa, noted that they seemed to have much more [...]
First Farmers
First Farmers: The origins of Agricultural Society Peter Bellwood Blackwells, PB £17.99 Why did Foragers become Farmers? Or in archaeological terms, why did the Mesolithic turn into the Neolithic? It was about a generation ago that anthropologists, observing the bushmen in Africa, noted that they seemed to have much more spare time and to work [...]
The Last Roman
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the decline of the West Adrian Murdoch Sutton, £18.99 Romulus Augustulus is very much the forgotten man of Roman history. Emperor for only ten short months at the age of 12, he was then sent into exile as the Western Roman Empire arguably ceased to exist. This new study [...]
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