Art and artefacts from ancient Egypt must rank among the most remarkable and influential from the ancient world. Yet we know comparatively…
New Light on the Black Death: the cosmic connection Mike Baillie, Tempus £17.99 Everyone knows the Black Death of 1348 was…
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavated His Past Michael Coe, Thames and Hudson, £18.95 Michael Coe is one of the great figures of…
Increasingly, the School (its Officers and Council) have to keep a close eye on changes in the ‘research environment’ in the United…
David Thorpe reports on the first stages of fieldwork to uncover evidence of Lawrence of Arabia…
The British Academy axes Egypt and Iraq…
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) has recently heard that, in two years’ time, it will lose its funding from the British Academy.…
The rationale behind the changes We approached the British Academy for an explanation for the changes in funding of institutes and societies.…
The Iraq school is in many ways in even a worse situation than the EES, as they are more reliant on Academy…
The wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt…
The early history of the first English settlement in America - as revealed in a new exhibition at London's Museum in Docklands…
CWA's travel focus on the archaeological and heritage highlights of northern China…
The tiny 'mouse-goat' evolved in relative isolation on the Balearic islands over some five million years but died out around 5000 years…