In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
Late in the year the streets of modern Rome are visited by groups of strangely dressed men with soft felt hats and…
Flying south of Agrigento, the blue begins, even on All Saints’ Day. An Ionian light, it is the ravishing glory of the Middle Sea.…
Home to over 21 million people, Mexico City is a glorious, sprawling, beautiful, and endlessly captivating capital. As the city with the…
Michaela Binder examines evidence of Europe’s earliest known artificial foot. Though people have lived on the Hemmaberg, a mountain settlement in southern Austria, since…
In life, Bishop Peder Winstrup was a renowned theologian, chaplain to the king, and founding father of Lund University. In death, he has…
Archaeologists investigating the Late Formative Period temple complex at Pacopampa (featured in CWA 75) discovered Inca offerings deposited more than 1,000 years…
The Ancient Babylonians could predict the passage of Jupiter through the night sky, which they recorded on cuneiform tablets – more than…
Evidence for the brutal massacre of a hunter-gatherer group is shattering long-held beliefs that pre-farming societies were essentially peaceful. The remains of…
The 6th century BC temple on the Greek island Despotiko is not what you might expect: the shrine boasts an enormous dining…
Winner of CWA Photo of the Year 2016 is Shuo Huang for his picture entitled Waking up with the Moai, Easter Island…
The island of Santiago lies at a great crossroads on the Atlantic slave-trade route. After ten years of archaeological investigation, Christopher Evans and…
The exotic Lady of Pacopampa and the recently discovered Serpent-Jaguar Priests were high ranking members of the Pacopampa ceremonial complex in the…