Deep in the Jordanian desert lies an extraordinary ruin. It is a Roman fort that can stake a claim to being the…
It is winter. The kitchen is humming with activity, as sheep’s wool is prepared for textile production and fires are kept up.…
In 1640, a bronze tablet was discovered during construction work on a palace in Tiriolo, southern Italy. Dating from 186 BC, it…
Before September, the people in this picture had never picked up a chisel. Now, only a few months into World Monument Fund’s…
We travel down the spectacular long and winding Siq that leads to Petra. There, the Nabataeans founded one of the most beautiful,…
The Great Arab Revolt Project With the CWA-backed Great Arab Revolt Project at an end after ten years’ work on the deserts…
Strabo, in his opus Geography, writes dismissively that the Nabataeans ‘consider dead bodies as they do dung, just as Heraclitus says: “Corpses…
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…
The Hijaz Railway was vital to Ottoman ambitions in the First World War. Armed with Royal Flying Corps plans, a camera, and…
Before 1812, Petra was one of the ancient world's 'lost cities': it was known from historical references, but the site had not…
Researchers at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology say they have found evidence that sophisticated behavioural patterns that define what it is…
The CWA-allied Great Arab Revolt Project has just completed its fourth season in the Jordanian desert searching for the remains of Lawrence…