I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
I got so excited when I first heard about the finds made at Yenikapı, the ancient harbour to the south of Istanbul’s…
John Hale is an archaeologist at the University of Kentucky in Louisville with an impressive dossier of field experience at sites both…
Chronologically speaking, prehistory covers more than 95% of the time that humans have inhabited planet earth, although it is only in the…
Admittedly, this is not a book on archaeology. Yet, it is well worth reading and thought-provoking, not least for those interested in…
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…
Visitors to Johannesburg can visit, in the grounds of the University of Witwatersrand, the outstanding Origins Centre. In this book the Centre’s…
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…