When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
Mark Horton writes from Iran where he explored the site of Siraf…
Let us learn a few hieroglyphs. Let us start with a straight line. This obviously means ‘land’ because in Egypt all the…
In his best selling book The Da Vinci Code, the author Dan Brown says that there are just two facts in the…
CWA look into the origins of the unique and beautiful yellow-green glass that has been produced in the Egyptian Sahara for thousands…
An exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem features over a hundred examples of ancient glass from across the Classical World…
CWA takes a look at the renovation project underway at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum…
Peter Sommer tells us of his 2000 mile trek following the route of Alexander the Great and his army…
A report on a Roman fort, probably built to contain a band of federate troops, excavated at Dichin in Bulgaria…
Ole Grøn and Jørgen Skaarup report on their excavations at a 5000 BC underwater site, Denmark…
CWA reports on the mid 16th century, labyrinthine fort at Rohtas in Pakistan…
Evidence of death and destruction at the uncompleted Crusaders' fort in Jordan, Jacob's Ford…
What was life like as a gladiator in Rome's Colloseaum…