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As they walked across Engare Sero in northern Tanzania, a group of people left their mark in the soft surface of volcanic ash beneath their ...
Review: The House of Augustus
The House of Augustus: a historical detective storyT P WisemanPrinceton University Press, £30ISBN 978-0691180076Review by: Andrew Selkirk What is the most terrible fate that can ...
Braving Armageddon
Behind the scenes of a great excavation The digging at Megiddo was undertaken by local workers, supervised by Egyptians from Quft. It is an open ...
Plain of Jars
Clusters of massive stone jars in Laos have inspired considerable curiosity. Little is known about the people who fashioned them, while even the date they ...
Travel: Barcino
The modern city of Barcelona, as seen from the forecourt of the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona occupies a fertile plain edged in by ...
Richard Hodges: Lascaux IV
It is a country of enchantment which poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is nearest thing to Paradise ...
Rare painted leopard revealed
A virtual restoration of a painted leopard's head from a sarcophagus found at the Aswan necropolis. Archaeologists with the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan have ...
Expanding amino acid dating
Geologists take samples at a Russian site dating to the Plio-Pleistocene (5 million-12,000 years ago). How should we date material that is millions of years ...
Into the daylight: a new rock art discovery
Recent excavation work in the Côa Valley has found a wealth of Upper Palaeolithic images densely covering a rock surface over 6m long. A fallen ...
Minerva magazine offer for CWA subscribers
Special Offer: CWA subscribers can get a 5-issue subscription to our sister magazine, Minerva, for just £10 In January this year, Current World Archaeology gained a new sister publication
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Plain of Jars
Clusters of massive stone jars in Laos have inspired considerable curiosity. Little is known about the people who fashioned them, while even the date they were created has not been conclusively resolved. What does new research reveal about these mysterious megaliths?
7 Wonders
7 discoveries that changed the archaeological world
One of the most exciting things about archaeology is that it is an ever-changing landscape, constantly causing us to reconsider our most firmly-held beliefs about ...
7 skeletal sites
What happens to us after we die? Prepare to get shivers down your spine as we look more closely at seven sites that dance closely ...
7 wonders – Editor’s choice
It is hard to narrow down your favourite archaeological sites to just 7 place names when you have the whole world from which to choose, ...
7 Fashionable Finds
Throughout history people have been keen to keep up with the latest trends and fashions. Whether used to display wealth or indicate membership of a ...
7 facts about the 7 Wonders of the World
Herodotus was the first to create a list of the seven most spectacular monuments in the world - or at least, in the world known ...
7 spectacular temples
Dominating the forum of Ostia Antica, the main harbour town supplying ancient Rome, the brick-built Capitolium can be seen from almost every part of the 2,500-year-old ...
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. 1. Family ...
7 ship-shape sites
We're in a maritime mood today. Read on for seven of our favourite ship-related archaeological sites. Bon Voyage! 1. The Oseberg ship, Norway In 1904, ...
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. Official inscriptions, ...
Travel: Barcino
The modern city of Barcelona, as seen from the forecourt of the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona occupies a fertile plain edged in by mountains on three sides and the sea on the fourth. It was a site that also found favour with the Romans. It is one of ...
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Richard Hodges: Lascaux IV
It is a country of enchantment which poets have staked out and which they alone may lay claim to. It is nearest thing to Paradise this side of Greece… I believe that the Cro-Magnon man settled here because he was extremely intelligent and had a highly developed sense of beauty ...
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Richard Hodges: Zeugma’s last secret
A mosaic featuring Oceanus and his wife Tethys – an aquatic scene, which was to prove ominously prophetic in the summer of 2000, when a new dam left rising waters threatening the ancient city of Zeugma. Could a rescue project be mounted before a sizeable chunk of the town disappeared? ...
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Sardinian splendours
CWA explores standout ancient sites in the north-west of the Mediterranean island. Monte d’Accoddi served as a sanctuary for centuries between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Through successive rebuilds, it was transformed into a terraced, truncated pyramid, often compared to a ziggurat. In the middle of an ...
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Richard Hodges: Homage to Dhaskalio
Sailing to a remote maritime sanctuary brings Richard Hodges to Europe’s earliest central place Colin Renfrew (left) and Michael Boyd (right), on the summit of Dhaskalio. Their excavations on this rocky islet have revealed an extraordinary Bronze Age settlement, which appears to have grown out of a maritime sanctuary on ...
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Ulpiana: The Romans in Kosovo
Ruins of the Roman city of Ulpiana, with the plains and hills of Kosovo beyond. The site was only discovered in the early 20th century, and today excavations are unearthing Ulpiana’s secrets. (Image: OSCE summer school) Excavations in a once-forgotten city are bringing its inhabitants’ stories to light, as Oliver ...
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Travel: Secrets from the Byzantine city of Shivta
Six Byzantine cities once flourished in the Negev Desert, but then the climate changed and these settlements were abandoned, leaving spectacular ruins for future generations to explore. At Shivta, the most impressive surviving structure is the Northern Church, which was once part of a wealthy monastery. How did cities come ...
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Richard Hodges: In the city of Aphrodite
A view across the ruins of the ancient city of Knidos. Claims and counter-claims about a sculptural fragment held by the British Museum brought a touch of trepidation to a celebrity visit during excavations at Knidos, the Turkish city of Aphrodite, in 1971, as Richard Hodges remembers in this exclusive ...
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Richard Hodges: Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Today, Grace Bay on Providenciales is a Caribbean paradise. But just how easy was life on this island for those who arrived before the advent of modern tourism? As we set off down Philadelphia’s runway, the pilot drolly piped up to say, ‘at least we didn’t have to de-ice [the ...
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Travel: Roman Algeria
Algeria offers a wealth of extraordinary Roman-era sites for tourists to explore. Here is a view over what must be the most famous: Timgad. This veterans’ colony was founded by the emperor Trajan in AD 100. Here, we are looking westwards over the central part of the town, from the ...
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