Civil unrest, violent clashes, an oppressive authority: we could be talking about Syria today. But this is 6,000 years ago, during the…
This year marks the 40th birthday of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention, which to-date protects almost 1,000 sites of outstanding cultural and natural…
Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas…
Very early in my archaeological career, I encountered an intense debate on the chronology of the earliest Neolithic in the Near East.…
The latest issue of Current World Archaeology is out now! We have special articles from Turkey, as well as features on (ancient)…
The weather in Baghdad It snowed in Baghdad in AD 908, 944 and 1007. How do we know? Because historians at Spain’s…
When magnificent mosaics were revealed in the Roman villas at Zeugma, such was their impact that the Turkish authorities decided they deserved…
Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy, and Laura Ross Sterling Publishing, £27.99 The Silk Road was no single path but a vast network…
Robert G Ousterhout Caique Publishing Ltd., £20 A trailblazer of archaeological photography, John Henry Haynes was taught by picturesque landscape painter William…
Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad Oxbow, £35 When did Europe become Europe? This ambitious question is posed by Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad…
Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul (eds) Oxford University Press, £80 Walter Scott called it a ‘City of the Dead’. To Goethe it…
Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, £8.95 Half a millennium before Homer described ‘Crete, set in the wine-dark sea’, its inhabitants used a…