In the 1990s, an aerial photograph captured a circular feature in the fields near the village of Pömmelte, Germany, sparking the beginning…
University College London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has won the Classic Award at the Museum & Heritage Awards for Excellence 2005,…
As the summer sets in, how about exchanging your luxury hotel for a cave house, or swapping days spent lying on the…
Currently on exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is an example of what many art historians regard as the Romans’ most significant artistic…
Fake prehistoric rock art of a caveman with a wire shopping trolley has been hung on the walls of the British Museum.…
In early June a glittering European Awards Ceremony was held in Bergen, Norway to celebrate the 2005 European Union Prize for Cultural…
A project to reconstruct a 5000 BC henge monument, interpreted as a solar observatory, the oldest of its kind in Europe, has…
Researchers suspect the corpse of Oetzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its…
Richard Hodges on the archaeology of Macedonia, formerly part of Yugoslavia…
Anthropological fieldwork with the Chagga in Kilimanjaro…
Celebrating the Garden of Eden Last month, CWA joined a host of international archaeologists on Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, to celebrate…
Every time an archaeologist looks at non-élite everyday data, this is heralded as something special, unusual, praise-worthy, and in the case of…
In a medieval, and indeed modern Rome, one building above all dominates the city: the Colosseum. Erected on a swamp in the…