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Estonia: Salme Ship Burials

April 2, 2013 by Jüri Peets Filed Under: Estonia, Features, Issue 58

Revealing a grim cargo of elite Viking warriors

Petra: Behind the monumental façades

January 25, 2013 by Lucy Wadeson Filed Under: Issue 57, Features, Jordan

Waking an Egyptian Chantress

November 29, 2012 by Susanne Bickel Filed Under: Issue 56, Egypt, Features

An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret

CWA Photo of the Year Competition

November 22, 2012 by Filed Under: News

Click here to see the winning photograph

Temple of the Night Sun

September 21, 2012 by Caitlin McCall Filed Under: Issue 55, Features, Guatemala

The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.

Heuneburg, Germany

September 21, 2012 by Manuel Fernandex-Gotz & Dirk Krausse Filed Under: Issue 55, Features, Germany

Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age city north of the Alps?

Paying the price of progress

September 21, 2012 by Tom St John Gray Filed Under: Issue 55, Blog, Singapore

Singapore is a 21st-century success story. But, asks Tom St John Gray, at what cost to its heritage?

Re-dating Ice Age art

September 21, 2012 by Alistair Pike & Paul Pettitt Filed Under: Issue 55, Features, Spain

Do the outlines of hands in Spain’s El Castillo cave belong to Homo sapiens or to their earlier Neanderthal cousins?

Horse Power

July 30, 2012 by Chris Catling Filed Under: Issue 54, Features

How does the archaeological record reflect the vital role horses played in the development of civilisation?

Wrecks in jeopardy

July 30, 2012 by Sean Kingsley Filed Under: Issue 54, News

Is global trawling of fragile shipwrecks the greatest threat to underwater heritage today?

Sudan: Amara West

July 30, 2012 by Neal Spencer Filed Under: Issue 54, Features, Sudan

What was life like under the shadow of the pharaohs? The realities of life and death under Egypt’s rule

Peru: Pachacamac

July 30, 2012 by Peter Eeckhout/Lawrence Owens Filed Under: Issue 54, Features, Peru

Why were the bodies of a dozen newborn babies placed around the edge of a 1,000-year-old tomb?

welcome to world archaeology

Welcome to Current World Archaeology, the magazine that studies archaeology round the world.

CWA was founded in 2003 as a sister magazine to Current Archaeology which, since 1967, has been reporting on the latest discoveries in British archaeology.

But CWA does not just look at the latest discoveries: it also travels the globe, looking at great monuments around the world, explaining how they came to be the sites - and sights - we see today.

Caitlin McCall, Editor

7 Wonders…

7 facts you might not know about Howard Carter

Today (May 9) is Howard Carter’s birthday, so we thought we would share some of our favourite facts about the discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

7 revolutionary writings

We often think of archaeology as being all about objects, but written sources are just as fundamental to our understanding of the past.

7 ship-shape sites

We’re in a maritime mood today. Read on for seven of our favourite ship-related archaeological sites. Bon Voyage!

Great Discoveries

Palatine Hill

The remains – remarkably unprepossessing amid the spectacular ruins of classical Rome all around – comprise postholes, wall-slots, and drainage gullies, defining three small structures.

Radiocarbon Revolution

How radiocarbon dating revolutionised our concept of social evolution.

Yadin at Masada

The dig Ancient historian Josephus records a dramatic end to the Siege of Masada in AD 73. As the final act of the Jewish Revolt of AD 66-73 – the subject of Josephus’s Jewish War – the writer records the mass suicide of 960 men, women, and children. These hardline revolutionaries – the original Zealots [...]

Absolon at Predmostí

The dig Rather than one major campaign of excavation, it was the results from a series of interventions over almost half a century, pulled together by Dr D K Absolon, Curator of the Government Museum in Brunn, Czechoslovakia, during the interwar period. This work of synthesis was then widely publicised from the mid-1920s onwards. The [...]

Gustafson at Oseberg

Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas at the beginning of the Viking Age.