When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish Peter Parsons Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £20.00 While wandering through the gloomy, overstuffed galleries of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum…
How to survive ancient Rome: a travellers' low-down according to Philip Matyszak…
David Miles journeys to Galicia to see how the regional government is leading the way in Spain in conserving and presenting their…
Kerkouane, on the tip of Cap Bon in Tunisia is one of the most extensively excavated of all Carthaginian settlements. What did…
A report on the British Museum's exhibition A New World: England's first view of America, featuring the16th century illustrations of America…
The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia's war: Neil Faulkner reports on the team's first seasons' work at Wadi Rutm in Southern Jordan…
Professor Roger Matthews, gives the low-down on Uruk-Warka in Iraq, seemingly the birth-place of writing and appears in the Bible…
Ian Shaw reports on his excavations at the 'harem' site of Gurob in the Fayum, Egypt…
CWA looks at how studying mites can reveal a lot about the fate of ancient civilisations…
Canopic jars of Rameses II neither Canopic nor Rameses' but ordinary cosmetic containers…
Images of Anthony and Cleopatra found on 2,000 year old coins…
Richard Hodges sends news from Sicily and visits sites including Syracuse - one of many extensive Greek planned colonies along the south…