When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
A report on the British Museum's exhibition A New World: England's first view of America, featuring the16th century illustrations of America…
Professor Roger Matthews, gives the low-down on Uruk-Warka in Iraq, seemingly the birth-place of writing and appears in the Bible…
Kerkouane, on the tip of Cap Bon in Tunisia is one of the most extensively excavated of all Carthaginian settlements. What did…
John Herbert reports on the glorious exhibition 'Afghanistan, les trésors retrouvés' currently on show at the Guimet Museum, Paris…
David Miles considers how Berlin is dealing with its recent heritage including a look at Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Eiserman's Holocaust Memorial…
Following the success of the 1970s tour of Tutankhamun, the boy-king is back on the road, currently wowing crowds in the US…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…
The life and times of Carter from the biography 'Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun' by HVF Winstone…
Archaeological investigations reveal the canal built by the Persian king Xerxes in northern Greece…
The wide-ranging archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis deep in the Western Desert of Egypt…
The early history of the first English settlement in America - as revealed in a new exhibition at London's Museum in Docklands…
CWA's travel focus on the archaeological and heritage highlights of northern China…