Andrew Selkirk recalls the city before the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, and reveals some unusual burial practices
Issue 13
One of the strange aspects of the great cities of the ancient world is the way they maintained what might seem to be excessive storage capacity. A fascinating example of this has recently been discovered at Hattusa/ Bogazk
Wadi Faynan, Copper Mine
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called ‘most polluted place on earth’
Bourbonne les Bains
A close look at the copious Roman artefacts found at the bottom of the sacred spring at Bourbonne-les-Bains in France
Persia, The Forgotten Empire
The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum
Bogazkoy / Hattusa
The excavations at the Turkish site of Bogazkoy, capital city of the Hittites
Oldest American Footprints
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas
Oldest Foot Wear Date from the Neandertals?
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man
Pompeii, Sensational Silver Discovered
A set of ancient silverware is discovered at Pompeii
South-Western Germany, Masculine Palaeolithic
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany
Egyptian Artefacts Found in Beijing Museum
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum
Norway: Medallion and Silver Bead Found
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway
Germany, Iron Age Bog Body
Remains of a young woman found in a bog in 2000 have been identified as dating from the Iron Age
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