The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
Also more sophisticated than previously thought is Peking Man, who may have made clothing and composite tools, archaeologists say. A subset of…
Archaeologists have identified a 30,000-year-old stone tool as China’s earliest-known engraved object – a key marker in the development of modern human…
More cutting-edge technology has been put to use by Scottish experts in China, creating 3D models of the Eastern Qing Tombs, the…
The World’s Longest Living Town Today, you will only get a view of Erbil Citadel ‘some four miles away’ from the window…
Archaeologists will be able to determine the age of ancient objects much more precisely following a breakthrough in radiocarbon dating using sediments…
Pingyao is an archaeological site with a difference: 30,000 people still live in it.
Once the banking capital of China, it has…
Archaeologists will be able to determine the age of ancient objects much more precisely, following a breakthrough in radiocarbon dating using sediments…
Clay cylinders from the Jordan Valley, traditionally interpreted as 8,000-year-old ritual ‘phallic objects’, have been reassessed as the earliest-known fire-drills. There is…
Singapore is a 21st-century success story. But, asks Tom St John Gray, at what cost to its heritage?…
“Red Blood filled her arteries, and her flesh was still malleable, with no sign of rigor mortis.”…
CWA’s Editor in Chief, Andrew Selkirk introduces the editor of Biblical Archaeology Review – the man who broke the embargo on the…
Recent excavations at Iron Age kurgans (burial mounds) in eastern Kazakhstan have uncovered spectacular artefacts preserved beneath the permafrost. Once belonging to…