Rome’s military is renowned as one of the finest fighting forces of the ancient world. But what was life really like for…
Cultivated rice dating back 10,000 years discovered in China…
Richard Hodges looks at the Greco-Roman city of Apollonia…
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive, by Jared Diamond (Penguin hardback, £20) is the sort of book that archaeologists should…
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) is often dismissed simply as an intrepid lady explorer/amateur archaeologist: ‘The Daughter of the Desert or a kind of…
With Petra being the lead article in this issue it is perhaps appropriate to look at a magnificent new book on the…
CWA's Editor in Chief discusses the nature of Islamic archaeology…
Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts asks 'who were the Turks?'…
CWA looks at the BM's Africa exhibition…
200 miles inland from the coast of Libya, Roman influence elevated the Garamantes into living a surprisingly civilised existence…
The mighty statue of Ramases II is set to be moved from down-town Cairo to a new museum planned for the Giza…
At Ban Non Wat, Charles Higham is discovering an unknown Bronze Age civilisation, with some remarkable 'superburials'…
Palaeoanthropologists have uncovered hominid evidence in Georgia that pushes back the date our forebears left Africa…