The CWA Photo Competition 2024 has now closed. See this year’s winning photos here. Send us your best heritage photos for a…
A fragment from the skull of a prehistoric child provides the oldest-known evidence of anaemia caused by malnutrition – suggesting that hominids…
Hard on the heels of the discovery that Neolithic ‘dentists’ may have used beeswax to treat cracked teeth, high-resolution CT scans of…
Residents of Taurisano, a small village in Apulia, Italy, are fighting to prevent their local heritage from being razed by building works.…
Austrian archaeologists are reconsidering prehistoric gender roles after the discovery of what could be the earliest female metalworker. The burial of a…
Three men arrested for the theft of 18 Chinese artefacts from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have been jailed for 6 years…
A 1,000-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet by Nazi scientists is the first-known carving of a human figure made from a meteorite,…
The spectacular 5th century BC statue known at the Motya Charioteer will be in London for just a few weeks more, after…
We are proud to share with you the first published photos of the House of the Telephus Relief at Herculaneum since archaeologists…
843 artefacts stolen during Afghanistan's 1992-4 civil war have been returned to the National Museum in Kabul by the British Museum.…
Excavators near Leipzig have discovered what appear to be the remnants of an ancient purse encrusted with over 100 dog teeth.…
Rock engravings discovered at Abri Castanet, in southern France, have been dated to 37,000 BP, making them the earliest known examples of…
The latest issue of Current World Archaeology is out now! We have special articles from Turkey, as well as features on Colombia's…