Apollonia Pontica was once a welcome refuge for mariners navigating a notoriously treacherous stretch of the Black Sea coast. Tradition has it…
Chronologically speaking, prehistory covers more than 95% of the time that humans have inhabited planet earth, although it is only in the…
John Hale is an archaeologist at the University of Kentucky in Louisville with an impressive dossier of field experience at sites both…
I got so excited when I first heard about the finds made at Yenikapı, the ancient harbour to the south of Istanbul’s…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…
What was the fate of archaeology under Communism in post-war Europe? In the East, the Communists carried out immaculate reconstructions of many…
The tumultuous history of the legionary fortress and civilian town of aquincum, Roman Budapest…
What was life like on the northern frontier of the assyrian empire?The colonial site of Ziyaret Tepe reveals how boom went bust…
The compelling rock art of north-eastern Brazil explored. But how might it redraft the story of early human migration…
From Minoan Linear B to Maya glyphs, Andrew Robinson explains how to decode the past…
Lawrence Barfield (1935-2009) As remembered by the Editor This article is an extract from the full article published in World Archaeology Issue…
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