It is easy to see the Thracians as stereotypes. According to the ancient literature, they were riders, warriors, and capable of horrifying…
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish Peter Parsons Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £20.00 While wandering through the gloomy, overstuffed galleries of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum…
God’s Gold Sean Kingsley, John Murray, £25.00 (HB), £9.99 (PB) In AD 70, the Roman Emperor Titus finally conquered the Jews and…
Ian Shaw reports on his excavations at the 'harem' site of Gurob in the Fayum, Egypt…
How to survive ancient Rome: a travellers' low-down according to Philip Matyszak…
Kerkouane, on the tip of Cap Bon in Tunisia is one of the most extensively excavated of all Carthaginian settlements. What did…
David Miles journeys to Galicia to see how the regional government is leading the way in Spain in conserving and presenting their…
The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia's war: Neil Faulkner reports on the team's first seasons' work at Wadi Rutm in Southern Jordan…
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…
CWA looks at how studying mites can reveal a lot about the fate of ancient civilisations…
Canopic jars of Rameses II neither Canopic nor Rameses' but ordinary cosmetic containers…
Images of Anthony and Cleopatra found on 2,000 year old coins…