In the 13th century, the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire that the world has ever seen. At its height,…
Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…
The CWA-allied Great Arab Revolt Project has just completed its fourth season in the Jordanian desert searching for the remains of Lawrence…
Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The Greek poetry of Homer was at first transmitted orally,…
The Late Bronze Age of the Near East, roughly spanning 1400-1200 BCE (Before Christian Era), has often been characterized as an ‘age…
Mohenjo-daro represents an entire Early Bronze Age civilization on a par with those of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia.…
We think of chemical weapons as one of the horrifying features of modern warfare. We might assume that it all started with…
Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…
Digging pre-European lives on the balmy 'desert island' of Carriacou…
Crete lies in an earthquake zone. This has affected the island over the centuries, but how? In the 1850's Captain Spratt, RN,…
CWA catches up with excavations at the temple site of Tell Tayinat which is throwing light on the 'Dark Age' in the…
archaeologists conducting excavations at the site in Xian are hoping to ascertain the success of conservation measures…
Grave of 5th century AD warrior discovered with surviving armour…