The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
A project to reconstruct a 5000 BC henge monument, interpreted as a solar observatory, the oldest of its kind in Europe, has…
Researchers suspect the corpse of Oetzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its…
In early June a glittering European Awards Ceremony was held in Bergen, Norway to celebrate the 2005 European Union Prize for Cultural…
Nebra is proving to be a rich archaeological area with the breaking news of the discovery of a lord and his retainers…
University College London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has won the Classic Award at the Museum & Heritage Awards for Excellence 2005,…
As the summer sets in, how about exchanging your luxury hotel for a cave house, or swapping days spent lying on the…
Currently on exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is an example of what many art historians regard as the Romans’ most significant artistic…
Fake prehistoric rock art of a caveman with a wire shopping trolley has been hung on the walls of the British Museum.…
Richard Hodges on the archaeology of Macedonia, formerly part of Yugoslavia…
Anthropological fieldwork with the Chagga in Kilimanjaro…
Celebrating the Garden of Eden Last month, CWA joined a host of international archaeologists on Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, to celebrate…
Chaco Canyon is situated in what must be one of the most unpropitious landscapes in the world. Lying in the American South…