There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
Richard Hodges visits the distinguished Danish archaeologist Klavs Randsborg and together they explore Denmark's past…
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…
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…
Increasingly, the School (its Officers and Council) have to keep a close eye on changes in the ‘research environment’ in the United…
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…