At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Beneath the glorious Sicilian coastal city of Siracusa lies a vast underground world, as Michael Metcalfe reveals.…
In Spring 1973, Robin Birley made the greatest discovery of his life: a small, thin fragment of wood which unfolded to reveal…
The Greek Dark Ages are no longer dark: the excavations at Lefkandi on the island of Euboea, led by Irene Lemos, have…
To the south west of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, archaeologists from Southampton University and the British School at Rome…
The invention of clothing and textiles ranks, along with the development of agriculture, cooking and ceramics, as one of the keystone events…
Feasting of a different kind was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of Antiquity (www.antiquity.ac.uk) reporting the evidence of…
Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…
Crete lies in an earthquake zone. This has affected the island over the centuries, but how? In the 1850's Captain Spratt, RN,…
2,000 year old equestrian staute discovered at Waldgrimes, central Germany…
An Anglo-Saxon hoard containg over 1,346 gold and silver items has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England…
CWA catches up with excavations at the temple site of Tell Tayinat which is throwing light on the 'Dark Age' in the…
Just west of the entrance to the underworld, lies the site of Baia. Mike Cless takes us there, tells of a divine…