Deep beneath Australia’s Nullarbor Plain lies Koonalda Cave. Lakes can be found within its subterranean passages, a matter of no little import…
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…
Compton Verney, the Grade I-listed mansion house near Stratford-upon-Avon, recently opened as an art and exhibition gallery. It is currently hosting a…
A study of wild and domesticated pigs casts new light on Polynesian migration…
Richard Hodges sends news from Sicily and visits sites including Syracuse - one of many extensive Greek planned colonies along the south…
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt John Ray, Profile £15.99 Which object lends its name to internationally known software…
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? Graeme Barker Oxford University Press, HB £80 Why did Foragers become Farmers?…
First Farmers: The origins of Agricultural Society Peter Bellwood Blackwells, PB £17.99 Why did Foragers become Farmers? Or in archaeological terms, why…
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the decline of the West Adrian Murdoch Sutton, £18.99 Romulus Augustulus is very much the forgotten…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…