In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
Archaeologists discover evidence of ritual activity dating back 70,000 years in Kalahari cave…
Bisitun, site of a rock-cut relief that enabled the decipherment of cuneiform Babylonian has been made into a World Heritage monument…
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…
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…
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 wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt…