Visitors to the Wellcome Collection in London’s Euston Road cannot fail to be intrigued by the man behind it, the American-born pharmaceutical…
This is a novel set in the reign of Tutankhamun, but also about Howard Carter’s work in Egypt, his partnership with Lord…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…
What was the fate of archaeology under Communism in post-war Europe? In the East, the Communists carried out immaculate reconstructions of many…
Lying within a magnificent, imperial-style palace, the amphitheatre was for private use and may well have been used for gladiatorial combat, wild…
What was life like on the northern frontier of the assyrian empire?The colonial site of Ziyaret Tepe reveals how boom went bust…
The compelling rock art of north-eastern Brazil explored. But how might it redraft the story of early human migration…
The tumultuous history of the legionary fortress and civilian town of aquincum, Roman Budapest…
From Minoan Linear B to Maya glyphs, Andrew Robinson explains how to decode the past…
Arelatively simple and inexpensive technique for dating ceramics has been developed by scientists at the UK’s Manchester University that could revolutionise the…
‘Why don’t we study the chimpanzee stone age?’ asks an international group of researchers in a paper recently published in the journal…
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