A Global Perspective

Martin Rundkvist, University of Chester, scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology The term ‘World Archaeology’ is a way to hide a dirty secret of our discipline in plain…

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A Tumultuous Decade

Prof Roger Matthews, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Reading The study of the ancient Near East is inextricably linked with political developments…

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Wonders of Egypt

Ancient World Tours  While, within the last ten years, many important historical sites have become off-limits in countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria,…

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Lords of Sipán

Nadia Durrani, former editor of CWA During my time as editor of CWA, I visited some of the world’s most exciting sites.…

A New Frontier

Prof David J Breeze, Chairman of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies In September 2002, exactly a year before the launch…

A Decade Underwater

Sean Kingsley, Director, Wreck Watch, London The most important marine discovery of the last decade turned up on terra firma: the silted…

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Facing the Future

John Sandy, GHF Regional Director for Asia Most of the 12th-century Khmer monuments in Angkor are partial ruins, hidden under dense jungle.…

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Learning from Mummies

Prof Rosalie David, University of Manchester & former Director of the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology  Biomedical Egyptology, a multidisciplinary study based on analytical…

Hitting the Jackpot

Maev Kennedy, archaeology correspondent, the Guardian newspaper Of all the wonderful things I’ve seen recently on sites or in museums, from the Silchester…