Before oil and gas, the Arabian Gulf grew rich on another natural resource: pearls. From the mid 18th until the early 20th…
Between Mycenaean Greece and Classical Greece there is a ‘Dark Age’ during which civilization appears to have collapsed and little is known.…
This issue features a trove of Turkish treasures. We begin in the ancient city of Myra on the southern coast of Turkey.…
This autumn the Penn Museum will hold an exhibition on their first-ever excavation at Nippur in modern Iraq. But it all centres…
What was life like for the Cro-Magnons, Europe's first anatomically modern humans? Having harnessed the archaeological data, Brian Fagan then gathers us…
From one iconic archaeological site to another, we end this round-up at Troy, on the western coast of Turkey. The site was…
The site has become famous partly for its large size (about 5,000-8,000 people lived there) and long occupation (the site is Neolithic…
Laodicea is well sited on a high plateau and surrounded by the rivers Lycos, Kapros and Asopos. Little wonder the city has…
In his writings, Strabo explains that the city of Metropolis is 120 stadia from Ephesus - and indeed it lies about 35km…
When Otto Benndorf presented his excavation project plans to the Ministry of Culture in 1893, he calculated that Ephesus could be uncovered…
The city of Caunus (also known as Kbid), on the southwest coast of Turkey, first finds fame in the literary sources during…
Sagalassos lies about 100km north of Perge, some 1,450-1,750m above sea level. It was occupied by at least the 5th century BC,…