These tombs were the final resting places of Japan’s ancient elites, and form part of a broader East Asian funerary tradition, aspects…
Snapshot of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their relevance to world history.…
Until recently, the Middle Mekong Basin has been terra incognita, archaeologically speaking. Now, a team is revealing its past.…
How did the city of Sweyhat thrive in the Mesopotamian outback?…
The Buddhas of Bamiyan have revealed oil paints being used to decorate associated caves in the mid 7th century AD…
Latest finds from the Ryukyu islands, including a series of royal burials…
The expertise of anthropologists is being used to help the US military better understand the populations in the areas in which they…
Five years on from the US occupation of Iraq, archaeologists have been attempting to quantify the scale of the damage to heritage…
Finds of carved ivory have suggested the methods of boat building and artic hunting of prehistoric Eskimo people from the far east…
Skull of homo erectus found containing fossilized membrane…
CWA's editor Nadia Durrani take us on a tour through one of her favourite countries, Yemen…
The final resting place of Alexander the Great is one of the famous unsolved mysteries of the ancient world. After he died…
The story of the red-brick Gorgan Wall. Snaking at least 195km from the Caspian Sea to the Highlands, it is one of…