At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Kerkouane, on the tip of Cap Bon in Tunisia is one of the most extensively excavated of all Carthaginian settlements. What did…
The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia's war: Neil Faulkner reports on the team's first seasons' work at Wadi Rutm in Southern Jordan…
CWA looks at how studying mites can reveal a lot about the fate of ancient civilisations…
Canopic jars of Rameses II neither Canopic nor Rameses' but ordinary cosmetic containers…
Images of Anthony and Cleopatra found on 2,000 year old coins…
Richard Hodges sends news from Sicily and visits sites including Syracuse - one of many extensive Greek planned colonies along the south…
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the decline of the West Adrian Murdoch Sutton, £18.99 Romulus Augustulus is very much the forgotten…
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt John Ray, Profile £15.99 Which object lends its name to internationally known software…
Did the great Maya civilisation really collapse? Jim Aimers writes of the intriguing evidence from Lamanai, the splendid Maya site in northern…
The life and times of Carter from the biography 'Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun' by HVF Winstone…
Following the success of the 1970s tour of Tutankhamun, the boy-king is back on the road, currently wowing crowds in the US…
Archaeological investigations reveal the canal built by the Persian king Xerxes in northern Greece…