CWA’s editor in chief joins Professor Lord Renfrew in the Central Cyclades
Fanum Voltumnae: Parliament of the Etruscan League
Is the mystery of the location of Etruscan league’s sacred shrine solved?
Culture of the Tallensi people of Northern Ghana
How does research in to Ghana’s Tallensi people help our interpretation of Stonehenge?
Terracota Army: Exhibition
Nadia Durrani takes a look at the Terracotta Army, on display at the British Museum
Hepatitis in Korean corpse
Archaeologists working in South Korea have found the first example of mummy infected with hepatitis B. Scientists hope it will help combat the disease
5000 year old chewing gum
New evidence from Finland shows our ancestors were chewing gum 5000 years ago
Ancient Egyptian Ostraka in Country House Cellar
212 Ancient Egyptian ostraka including over 100 tax recipts have been found in the store rooms in Kingston Lacey, Dorset
Books on Fire
Books on Fire: The Tumultuous Story of the World’s Great Libraries, Lucien X. Polastron, Thames & Hudson, £18.95 Chosen by Andrew Robinson, the author of The Story of Writing and Lost Languages among other books. Books on Fire is a history of library and book burning from earliest times, in which the cuneiform clay tablets [...]
Fish on Friday
Fish on Friday Brian Fagan, Basic Books, £15.99 Chosen by Timothy Darvill, Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University. Sometimes archaeological research can both challenge and expand conventional history. Here Brian Fagan does both by suggesting that North America was well known to the fishermen of northwest Europe long before Columbus and Cabot claimed the New World and sailed [...]
Roman Cult of Mithras, the God and his Mysteries
The Roman Cult of Mithras, the God and his mysteries Manfred Clauss, Edinburgh, £20.99 Chosen by Dr Eberhard Sauer of the University of Edinburgh who has long been interested in the Oriental cult of Mithras. His excavations include the Roman fortress at Alchester near Oxford and the Persian frontier walls in northern Iran. The Mithras [...]
Shadow of the Silk Road
November 4, 2007
Filed Under: Issue 26, Books, Middle East
Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron Chatto and Windus, £8.99 Chosen by Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology UCL. Roger has worked in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, and is interested in the sorts of long-range connections and exchanges of commodities and products that lie at the heart of [...]
Kaupang in Skiringssal
Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1 – Norske Oldfunn XXII) edited by Dagfinn Skre Aarhus University Press, £39.95 (hb) Chosen by Prof. Richard Hodges, Williams Director, University of Pennsylvania Archaeology & Anthropology Museum. The greatest compliment that can be paid to this volume is that it bears comparison with Holger Arbman’s [...]
Mind in the Cave, The
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art J. David Lewis-Williams Thames & Hudson, £10.72 Chosen by John Herbert, an award-winning film director whose work includes a series of documentaries on the archaeology of Arabia. How did people think as they fashioned rock art at Lascaux and Altamira? Were they as intelligent as us? ‘Yes’ says this intriguing book, but the artists [...]
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