The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
Looting continues in Afghanistan following the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in 2001…
The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia…
CWA reports on the current excavations and star sites of Northern Pakistan…
Digging the markets of Beirut: a report by Dominic Perring on 12 years' work in Lebanon's capital…
Archaeologists discover rock painting dating back 3,000 years…
Peter Pfalzner, of the University of Tubingen writes of the extraordinary Brinze Age royal tombs at Qanta…
To the east of the small town of Madaba in Jordan – famed for its 6th century AD Mosaic Map, the earliest…
Richard Hodges reports from the land of multi-storey mud-brick architecture, known to the Romans as Arabia Felix…
David Mason writes about the unusual excavation techniques he learnt as an excavator in Japan…
To mark the 70th anniversary of his death the Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition on his life…
The forgotten Achaumenid Empire is remembered in a new exhibition at the British Museum…
Revealed: the evidence for ancient copper mining at Wadi Faynan in Jordan, sinisterly called 'most polluted place on earth'…