The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
New research indicates that self-adornment seems to be an archaic human trait…
Florentine scientists have developed a new tool to help preserve precious fresco paintings…
Richard Hodges writes from the island of Áno Koufoníssi where he spent time with Lord Renfrew…
Peter Watson and Cecili Todeschini Public Affairs Books £15.99 This is very much a Cowboys and Indians sort of book chronicling the…
Only a couple of months ago CWA published Dominic Perring’s optimistic feature on Beirut’s archaeology. It was about the 12 year programme of…
Determining age at death is one of the first assessments made of a human skeleton. In juveniles, this is straightforward: the body…
One of the original 12 sites to be added to the World Heritage list, Lalibela is one of the most important pilgrimage…
Vladimir Karasev lifts the iron curtain from the archaeology of the Independent Republic of Uzbekistan and reports on the archaeology of Tashkent…
A report on the new BM exhibition space…
The excavations at a fashionable Old Kingdom cemetery lying just behind the step pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara, Egypt…
The many and diverse records of the Tutankhamun tomb excavation are brought into the 21st century…
Ancient figs found in Jordan may prove to be some the earliest evidence of agriculture in the world…