There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
Chronologically speaking, prehistory covers more than 95% of the time that humans have inhabited planet earth, although it is only in the…
John Hale is an archaeologist at the University of Kentucky in Louisville with an impressive dossier of field experience at sites both…
I got so excited when I first heard about the finds made at Yenikapı, the ancient harbour to the south of Istanbul’s…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
In 1907 two great Welsh institutions were founded – the National Library and the National Museum. One year later a third was…
CWA takes a look at the Late Shang Dynasty palace and funerary complex…
What was the fate of archaeology under Communism in post-war Europe? In the East, the Communists carried out immaculate reconstructions of many…
The compelling rock art of north-eastern Brazil explored. But how might it redraft the story of early human migration…
From Minoan Linear B to Maya glyphs, Andrew Robinson explains how to decode the past…