The dig The Hypogeum Ħal-Saflieni was discovered in 1902 when builders, working on a new housing development, fell through its roof. The huge underground structure…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
Mohenjo-daro represents an entire Early Bronze Age civilization on a par with those of contemporary Egypt and Mesopotamia.…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…
The Sutton Hoo ship cemetery was one of the ideological forging-houses of early Medieval kingship in Europe. Here we discover how kings…
Basic questions about New Kingdom Egypt - about town layout, building techniques, urban economy, arts and crafts, everyday life, and much else…
The ruins of Great Zimbabwe extend over 720 hectares of rocky hill and valley in south-central Zimbabwe. Yet it's origins were often…
When Arthur Evans started digging at Knossos on Crete in 1900, a major aim was to find inscriptions and prove that the…
How radiocarbon dating revolutionised our concept of social evolution.…
A snapshot of the Australopithecus afarensis, otherwise known as 'Lucy'.…