When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
Romans versus Persians - a gruesome story of gas warfare at the ancient siege site of Dura-Europos…
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…
Project aims to study development of mud-brick enclosures dating to the Early Islamic Period…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…
The Rape of Mesopotamia is not an exaggerated title, unfortunately. His book is an ‘autopsy of a cultural disaster’, writes Lawrence Rothfield,…
A look at the ancient Japanese ceramic figures currently on show at the British Museum…
Sophisticated stone tools challenge previous assumptions about Australian tool-making…
The story of unusual shaped structures thought to have been built by the Israelites upon entering the Land of Canaan.…
Inside report on the newly - uncovered Bronze Age elite burials of Ban Non Wat…
Animal bones used to analyse ancient diets…
Could the origins of agriculture be located in the well drained foothills of mountain chains rather than river valleys as previously thought?…