Why is Ramses II considered to be ‘the Great’? An exhibition focusing on his life and times sheds light on how Ramses…
Researchers at UCL have revealed the chemical make up of Hessian crucibles using X--ray diffraction…
Archaeologists discover evidence of ritual activity dating back 70,000 years in Kalahari cave…
Bisitun, site of a rock-cut relief that enabled the decipherment of cuneiform Babylonian has been made into a World Heritage monument…
Richard Hodges visits the distinguished Danish archaeologist Klavs Randsborg and together they explore Denmark's past…
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavated His Past Michael Coe, Thames and Hudson, £18.95 Michael Coe is one of the great figures of…
The Iraq school is in many ways in even a worse situation than the EES, as they are more reliant on Academy…
Increasingly, the School (its Officers and Council) have to keep a close eye on changes in the ‘research environment’ in the United…
David Thorpe reports on the first stages of fieldwork to uncover evidence of Lawrence of Arabia…
The British Academy axes Egypt and Iraq…
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) has recently heard that, in two years’ time, it will lose its funding from the British Academy.…
The rationale behind the changes We approached the British Academy for an explanation for the changes in funding of institutes and societies.…
The wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt…