Apollonia Pontica was once a welcome refuge for mariners navigating a notoriously treacherous stretch of the Black Sea coast. Tradition has it…
Archaeologists attempt to recreate ancient perfume…
Arelatively simple and inexpensive technique for dating ceramics has been developed by scientists at the UK’s Manchester University that could revolutionise the…
‘Why don’t we study the chimpanzee stone age?’ asks an international group of researchers in a paper recently published in the journal…
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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A walk through the heart of Athens, taking in the latest archaeological gems, but ably avoiding the crowded Acropolis…
Richard Hodges tours the Salento in South Italy; there he finds a clash of civilizations and some intriguing Medieval graffiti…
The Rape of Mesopotamia is not an exaggerated title, unfortunately. His book is an ‘autopsy of a cultural disaster’, writes Lawrence Rothfield,…
This is a book about those members of two English families who were long resident in the islands of St Kitts and…
The starting point of Stamper’s book is his reconstruction of the original Temple of Jupiter Optimus aximus on the Capitoline Hill in…
A look at the ancient Japanese ceramic figures currently on show at the British Museum…
The Sutton Hoo ship cemetery was one of the ideological forging-houses of early Medieval kingship in Europe. Here we discover how kings…