One of the first civilisations to be converted to Christanity: but what was there before Christanity?
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Novgorod, Russia
Russia’s pre-eminent medieval site
Roman Quarry Wins Prize
Vulkanpark, Rome, wins heritage award
Oetzi’s Intestines
Intestines contain evidence of Oetzi’s last meals
Statue of Livia from Narona
Reunited staute of Livia forms centre-piece of Ashmolean exhibition
America’s Oldest Inhabitants
Divers discover one of the Americas’ oldest skeletons
Kephallonia
Richard Hodges investigates the village of Fiskado and finds one of the greatest surviving Norman abbeys in Greece
Jordan from the Air
Archaeologists provide an aerial view of some of Jordan’s most compelling sites
Tales from Ancient Egypt
Tales from Ancient Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Rutherford Press, £8.50 In the beginning nothing existed but the terrible, swirling waters of chaos. There was no land and there was no sky. No gods, no people, no light, no warmth, no time and no death. Only the dangerous, endless waters. But deep within that dark sea there […]
Chinese Silk
Silk is one of the more complex luxuries. It is not just a matter of cultivating silk worms – it is also essential to cultivate the mulberry leaves on which they feed. You then set up a series of racks containing trays covered with mulberry leaves on which the silk worms feast. You then extract […]
Visiting Korea
CWA’s editor discusses the Far East
Splendours of Sudan
A look at the Sudan exhibition held at the British Museum
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