There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
An exhibition in the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem draws together diverse collection of ancient oil lamps…
Capcom releases historical video game…
Oldest known skeleton in the UAE discovered…
Cultivated rice dating back 10,000 years discovered in China…
Richard Hodges looks at the Greco-Roman city of Apollonia…
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive, by Jared Diamond (Penguin hardback, £20) is the sort of book that archaeologists should…
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) is often dismissed simply as an intrepid lady explorer/amateur archaeologist: ‘The Daughter of the Desert or a kind of…
With Petra being the lead article in this issue it is perhaps appropriate to look at a magnificent new book on the…
Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts asks 'who were the Turks?'…
CWA looks at the BM's Africa exhibition…
CWA's Editor in Chief discusses the nature of Islamic archaeology…
Palaeoanthropologists have uncovered hominid evidence in Georgia that pushes back the date our forebears left Africa…