In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
Following the success of the British Museum’s recent exhibition Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, Nadia Durrani was intrigued to find…
As we crossed from Marmaris to Rhodes, the hydrofoil skimming through the hammered blue seas, my thoughts turned to one of my…
On the letters page of CWA 52, Martin Davie asked for more information about Thera. Well, Martin, I may just be able to…
Droit du seigneur One of life’s most uncomfortable experiences is to be engaged in conversation by a family-history buff. Often these are…
Both Diggers on the National Geographic Channel and Spike TV’s American Digger follow the exploits of metal-detecting teams as they search for…
The McDonald Institute at Cambridge University has, for many years, held special symposia on topics that traditionally lie on the ‘edge of…
News breaking as we go to press that archaeologists have discovered an unknown language dating back 2,500 years to the days of…
Researchers studying 5,300-year-old ‘Oetzi’ have found traces of blood, the oldest red blood cells ever recovered, showing he died shortly after his…
Greek archaeologists picketed a recent auction of antiquities at a London auction house in protest against cuts to state heritage services in…
Humans used fire a million years ago – more than 300,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a team led by…
Excavations in Jordan have unearthed 20,000-year-old huts that could reshape our view of how humans lived before the development of agriculture. The…
Lost fragments of an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been rediscovered in Australia. On a visit to Queensland Museum, British…