20,000-year-old huts in Jordan
Excavations in Jordan have unearthed 20,000-year-old huts that could reshape our view of how humans lived before the development of agriculture. The research, recently published in PLoS One, suggests hunter-gatherers in this region had fixed settlements with extensive trade networks 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. ‘Kharaneh IV is one of the densest and largest [...]
Jordan: Flying the line
The Hijaz Railway was vital to Ottoman ambitions in the First World War. Armed with Royal Flying Corps plans, a camera, and a Jordanian army helicopter, John Winterburn has gone in search of the desert war.
Petra
Before 1812, Petra was one of the ancient world’s ‘lost cities’: it was known from historical references, but the site had not been located on the ground.
Dead Sea
Researchers at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology say they have found evidence that sophisticated behavioural patterns that define what it is to be human go back as early as 750,000 years ago – half a million years earlier than previously thought. The evidence comes from excavations at Benot Ya’aqov, located along the Dead Sea [...]
Jordan: all that Glistens is not Gold
The CWA-allied Great Arab Revolt Project has just completed its fourth season in the Jordanian desert searching for the remains of Lawrence of Arabia’s war. Sometimes, archaeological discoveries are spectacular. More often, they are very mundane. But, argues GARP landscape archaeologist John Winterburn, the very mundane can be packed with information
King Soloman’s mines
Excavators at Herodium have reiterated their claim that have found king Herod’s sarcophagus
Empire and the Kingdom, the
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Great Arab Revolt Project
The Great Arab Revolt Project, the CWA-backed excavation, is in its second season. Here the team tells of the latest results
Hidden Jordan
The Council for British Research in the Levant is sponsoring a Ritual Landscapes Project in search of copper age burials
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
First Stage of Great Arab Revolt Project
David Thorpe reports on the first stages of fieldwork to uncover evidence of Lawrence of Arabia
Jordan, Neolithic Figs
Ancient figs found in Jordan may prove to be some the earliest evidence of agriculture in the world
Jordan, Death and Destruction at Jacob’s Ford
Evidence of death and destruction at the uncompleted Crusaders’ fort in Jordan, Jacob’s Ford
Beyond The River
To the east of the small town of Madaba in Jordan – famed for its 6th century AD Mosaic Map, the earliest known map of the Levant – is the Persian Palace of Qasr el-Mushatta. So impressive were these Persian ruins that Layard, writing in 1840, described them as ‘a marvellous example of the sumptuousness [...]
Just Desserts for Lawrence?
To mark the 70th anniversary of his death the Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition on his life
Wadi Faynan, Copper Mine
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called ‘most polluted place on earth’
Petra, Jordan
Excavations are underway at the soldiers tomb in Petra, Jordna. Here there is both a tomb and a ritual dining room
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