On 14 October 1066, King Harold Godwinson fell at the Battle of Hastings, and England changed forever. The Bayeux Tapestry leads us,…
Södertörn University archaeologists have found 9,000-year-old fishing traps in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden, making them the oldest yet…
As the conflict in Syria escalates, Emma Cunliffe reports for CWA on the damage being done to the country’s heritage.…
When did our ancestors leave Africa to colonise the globe? Our cottage in Ashwell looks out over the village church, which boasts…
Rome’s decline, Celtic brawls, and China’s walls Decline and Fall Edward Gibbon wrote an epic six-volume History of the Decline and Fall…
Basking in the eastern Mediterranean sun, Cyprus – legendary birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis – boasts an astonishing wealth of archaeological treasures,…
All roads seem to lead to Rome. I once lived here for seven years and now, by way of another capital, Philadelphia,…
David Stuttard British Museum Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714122724 They had come to the hilltop to make sacrifice. Now, on this day of…
Francesco Menotti Oxford University Press, £95.00 ISBN 978-0199571017 Wetland archaeology, Menotti writes, is a widely practised but relatively unknown subdiscipline – he…
Barbara Watterson Amberley, £18.99 ISBN 978-1445604947 This authoritative, accessible book by a freelance lecturer in Egyptology provides a comprehensive and compelling introduction…
Ed. Aleksander Pluskowski Oxbow, £48.00 ISBN 978-1842174449 Animals have been interred with humans in prehistoric and historic societies worldwide. This collection of…
John Bintliff Wiley-Blackwell, £29.00 ISBN 978-1405154192 John Bintliff, a lecturer and archaeologist, has produced a panoramic labour of love that illuminates the…
David Stuttard and Sam Moorhead The British Museum, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714122748 Whatever you think about the story of Antony, Cleopatra, and the…