At Deir ‘ain ‘Abata in Jordan, the monastery of St Lot has been rediscovered and excavated
Mo’alla, Egypt
Re-excavation of the tombof Ankhtyfy, an Egyptian warlord in the First Intermediate Period, 2100 BC
South East Asia
Visiting Angkor Wat, Ayutthayan, Bangkok and a spectacular Bronze Age cemetary at Ban Non Wat
Okinawa, Japan
Excavation of a Samurai castle in Okinawa, the island 400 miles to the south of Japan
South African Rock Art
May 7, 2004
Filed Under: Issue 5, Features, South Africa
Jeffrey May tries to understand the rock art of South Africa
Split Sculpture – Reunited
Two halves of a sculpture have been re-united after spending most of their lives apart
Shell Beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa
May 6, 2004
Filed Under: Issue 5, News, South Africa
Oldest known beads found in Africa show modern human behaviour
Peking Man’s Cave
Peking Man was one of the first ‘men’ to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only recently being properly dated
Granada, Spain
Richard Hodges looks at rescue archaeology in Spain, and is sceptical about UNESCO’s plans for Alhambra
Ancient Queens
Ancient Queens, Archaeological Explorations Ed. Sarah Milledge Nelson, AltaMira Press, £24.95 Do you know much about the women who ruled in antiquity? As Sarah Milledge Nelson, Professor of Archaeology at Denver points out, most of us do not …’presumably because of a cultural expectation that rulers will be men’. Nelson’s edited collection of ten papers [...]
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor Wolfram Grajetzki, Gerald Duckworth & Co., £14.99 Wolfram Grajetzki’s comprehensive little book aims to document the burial customs of Ancient Egypt across five millennia. He opens with a look at the graves of the early Egyptian farmers who lived and died some seven [...]
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: a Compendium Ed. Elizabeth Peters, Constable & Robinson, £19.99 This is a book that is both charming and dangerous. Elizabeth Peters might be described as an American version of Agatha Christie, and her equivalent of Hercule Poirot is Amelia Peabody, a Victorian feminist/archaeologist/ detective, the chronicles of whose doings are extremely popular [...]
Dragon Bone Hill
In 1921, the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson and his palaeontological assistant Otto Zdansky, an Austrian, discovered some intriguing fossil bones in a complex of Pleistocene-era caves near Peking. Dragon Bone Hill is the English translation of the local Chinese name (Longgushan) of the caves that are internationally known as Zhoukoudian. A galaxy of international scientists [...]
Year of the Ghost
The year of the ghost Derek A. Roe, Western Academic & Specialist Press for Beagle Books, £14.95 In 1983, Derek Roe became a ghost. Derek was at the time 46 and a rising figure in the world of Old Stone Age Archaeology at Oxford; but he was also well-known as a writer, so he was [...]
Moundbuilders
The Moundbuilders George R. Milner, Thames and Hudson, £28.00 If you go to America, and land on the East Coast, then cross over the Appalachian Mountains, you come down into the huge valley plain of the River Mississippi with its tributaries, the Ohio, the Illinois and the Tennessee rivers. This huge area, nearly 1000 miles [...]
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