Wine dating from 7,000 BC discovered in China
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Flores Man
Debate surrounding Homo Floresiensis
Poggibonsi Study Centre (Italy)
Richard Hodges travels to the ‘armpit of Tuscany’ to give us his inimitable perspective on its archaeology
Alexander
Oliver Stone’s new epic Alexander has hit the headlines. The New York Post has labelled it ‘Alexander the Gay’, and US Christians thinking of going to see it have been advised to ‘speak to your pastors immediately because Satan is attempting to enter your mind’. Greek nationalists have been fuming. How could the greatest hero […]
Temple of Jerusalem
The Temple of Jerusalem is one of the most important non-existing buildings in the world. Just what was it and why was it important? In a slim volume, The Temple of Jerusalem (Profile books, £15.99), Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at Cambridge, looks at the temple in three different stages. The first […]
Goddess & the Bull:Catalhoyuk
‘On a cold day in 1958’ writes Michael Balter ‘the history of archaeology, and of our understanding of our own origins, was changed forever’. It was on that day in 1958, that archaeologist James Mellaart discovered one of the world’s oldest towns, Turkey’s Çatalhöyük. And thus began an archaeological odyssey into the origins of civilisation […]
Mons Porphyrites, Egypt
Two quarries in Egypt’s eastern desert supplied much of the best building material for Imperial Rome
Korea: Gongju,
The discovery of the tomb of King Muryong
Korea: the Gaya Kingdoms
The necropolis of the noble family of the Gaya
Korea: The Silla
The most successful of Korea’s three kingdoms
Korea: Han Hillforts
Hillforts on the frontier of rival kingdoms
Catalhoyuk, Turkey
Excavated in the 1960’s, could this be the worlds oldest town?
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