We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with…
I got so excited when I first heard about the finds made at Yenikapı, the ancient harbour to the south of Istanbul’s…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…