Digs, Discoveries, Travel, Exploration
Coming soon in Current World Archaeology #53
The earliest known temple, at Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia, predates even the first farming communities. But what came first, religion or civilisation? Find out in the next issue of CWA.
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
We often think of archaeology as being all about objects, but written sources are just as fundamental to our understanding of the past.
Seven things you might not know about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
7 game-changing finds that captured the archaeological imagination.
The dig The site of Babylon – one of the oldest, richest, and most fabled cities of Antiquity – had attracted a succession of European antiquarian investigators during the 19th century, but it was not until the arrival of a German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft) team led by Robert Koldewey (1855-1925) that scientific excavations were [...]
Flinders Petrie, an established Egyptologist, excavated three prehistoric sites in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Fund during the 1890s
Machu Picchu symbolises the extent, technical skill, and productivity of the Inca Empire in its heyday.
Peking Man represents the spread of a new species of hominid, Homo erectus, in an earlier ‘Out of Africa’ migration beginning about a million years ago
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