The monuments carved into the rose-red rock faces at Petra can be counted among the most renowned archaeological remains on the planet.…
The latest issue of Current World Archaeology is out now! We have special articles from Turkey, as well as features on (ancient)…
The weather in Baghdad It snowed in Baghdad in AD 908, 944 and 1007. How do we know? Because historians at Spain’s…
When magnificent mosaics were revealed in the Roman villas at Zeugma, such was their impact that the Turkish authorities decided they deserved…
Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy, and Laura Ross Sterling Publishing, £27.99 The Silk Road was no single path but a vast network…
Robert G Ousterhout Caique Publishing Ltd., £20 A trailblazer of archaeological photography, John Henry Haynes was taught by picturesque landscape painter William…
Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad Oxbow, £35 When did Europe become Europe? This ambitious question is posed by Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad…
Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul (eds) Oxford University Press, £80 Walter Scott called it a ‘City of the Dead’. To Goethe it…
Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, £8.95 Half a millennium before Homer described ‘Crete, set in the wine-dark sea’, its inhabitants used a…
How on earth do you get the students up at 5am? That, rather than the archaeology, is the question that preoccupies my…
Troy is not a place one normally associates with Holland. Yet the Dutch claim to have their own version: Dorestad. It lies…
Andorra is best known as an inexpensive ski-resort, but the tiny landlocked principality is chock-full of archaeology, its rich cultural heritage waiting…
China’s heritage sites are fast disappearing – to tomb-robbers and thieves, or to make way for industrial projects and new developments. These…