What is it? This late Ming dynasty map depicts China, the South China Sea, and surrounding lands. It was drawn in the…
As the centenary of Howard Carter’s discovery looms, the largest collection of Tutankhamun’s grave goods ever to leave Egypt has embarked on…
The enjoyment of food and drink, the essence of life, was deeply ingrained in Roman society. Beyond mere nutrition, food and wine…
When the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud left Vienna after Germany annexed Austria in 1938, he was – unlike most other refugees –…
The small size of the Cycladic island of Delos belies its significance in the ancient world, both as a major sanctuary and…
What is it? This small Egyptian figure, carved out of red sandstone around 1800 BC, depicts a familiar mythical creature: the sphinx.…
Between 1993 and 2018, largescale excavations at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey as part of the Çatalhöyük Research Project have…
CWA tours a London secret. Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of England’s most innovative architects, an esteemed professor at the Royal…
Sicily, one of the world’s great crossroads of culture, is the subject of the British Museum’s latest must-see exhibition, Sicily: Culture and…
Aysegul Gurgezoglu Tuzun visits Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum in Turkey Germanicia, beneath the modern city of Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, played host to many…
A rare collection of Islamic medical manuscripts has gone on display for the first time, illuminating medical traditions that developed in the…
First settled in the late 6th millennium BC, between 3600-2500 BC the Maltese archipelago flourished into an astonishingly rich prehistoric culture, producing…