On 14 October 1066, King Harold Godwinson fell at the Battle of Hastings, and England changed forever. The Bayeux Tapestry leads us,…
Prof Sir Paul Mellars, University of Edinburgh, trustee of the ACE Foundation • The world’s oldest stone tools now date back to…
Denise Allen, Andante Travels There has been a curious contrast over the past decade: while archaeology has been hit hard by the…
Prof Chris Scarre, Editor of Antiquity One of the most striking features of the past decade has been the revolution in scientific analysis.…
Prof Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum Traditionally, the evidence to reconstruct our evolutionary history has come from the prehistoric evidence of artefacts and fossils.…
Ten years ago, CWA was launched on its maiden voyage of discovery. Here, experts from around the archaeological world share their insights…
The dig The site of the Roman Imperial villa at Piazza Armerina was buried by a landslide in 1161, and the remains…
A Roman retreat Eighteen Roman emperors came from Serbia – more than anywhere else outside Italy. One of them was Gaius Galerius…
Below are all the past issues of Current World Archaeology. We still have the majority of magazines in stock – if you…
CWA is celebrating its 10th birthday with a special anniversary issue: Editor in Chief Andrew Selkirk flicks back through the pages to…
The lost Egyptian cities of Thonis and Heracleion appear in the historical record but their whereabouts were long forgotten since disappearing beneath…
Mistra, the Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese, is the most exquisitely beautiful of places, an unforgettable combination of peerless art and important…
3,000 golden grave goods in Early Chalcolithic Bulgaria…