Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The Greek poetry of Homer was at first transmitted orally,…
The Late Bronze Age of the Near East, roughly spanning 1400-1200 BCE (Before Christian Era), has often been characterized as an ‘age…
Mohenjo-daro represents an entire Early Bronze Age civilization on a par with those of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia.…
We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with…
Digging pre-European lives on the balmy 'desert island' of Carriacou…
Crete lies in an earthquake zone. This has affected the island over the centuries, but how? In the 1850's Captain Spratt, RN,…
Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…
CWA catches up with excavations at the temple site of Tell Tayinat which is throwing light on the 'Dark Age' in the…
Grave of 5th century AD warrior discovered with surviving armour…
Project aims to study development of mud-brick enclosures dating to the Early Islamic Period…
An Anglo-Saxon hoard containg over 1,346 gold and silver items has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England…
archaeologists conducting excavations at the site in Xian are hoping to ascertain the success of conservation measures…