What was it like for a barbarian to become Roman? In the book that I am writing in my retirement, or semi-retirement,…
CWA’s Editor in Chief, Andrew Selkirk introduces the editor of Biblical Archaeology Review – the man who broke the embargo on the…
"You really wouldn't want a vampire in the house, trailing blood and gore, and smelling putrid"…
The Royal Academy is planning a spectacular and innovative new exhibition that will bring together an eclectic collection of bronze artefacts spanning…
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…
By Dexter Findley The sea is our planet’s last frontier: we know less about the ocean floor than we do the surface…
Droit du seigneur One of life’s most uncomfortable experiences is to be engaged in conversation by a family-history buff. Often these are…
Both Diggers on the National Geographic Channel and Spike TV’s American Digger follow the exploits of metal-detecting teams as they search for…
The McDonald Institute at Cambridge University has, for many years, held special symposia on topics that traditionally lie on the ‘edge of…
Very early in my archaeological career, I encountered an intense debate on the chronology of the earliest Neolithic in the Near East.…
The weather in Baghdad It snowed in Baghdad in AD 908, 944 and 1007. How do we know? Because historians at Spain’s…
Lion man or woman? In August 1939, archaeologist Otto Völzing was excavating deep inside the Stadel cave in the Schwäbische Alb mountains…