The traditional story of the foundation of Falerii Novi is a dramatic one. This town lies in the Tiber valley, about 44km…
Over the years there have been several magic moments during my digging career. Trowelling down to reveal my first mosaic in a…
This is the seventh edition of Coe’s Maya, a readable and enjoyable richly illustrated introduction to the New World civilisation. Here, the…
A global superpower attacks a small ‘rogue state’. The superpower – arrogant, self-righteous, supremely confident – swaggers in. It is bound to…
In 1703, Robert Drury, aged 16, was shipwrecked on the south coast of Madagascar. For the next 13 years he was a…
G.J. Tassie of the Cultural Heritage Organisation, looks at some of the recent undertakings in Egypt…
Campaign to rescue Roman bath site at Allianoi…
The latest discoveries at KV5, the largest ancient Egyptian tomb ever discovered in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor…
The new Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. CWA investigates the fate of archaeology…
A detailed look at the finest mosaics discovered anywhere in the Roman world for a generation, recently discovered in the desert city…
In early June a glittering European Awards Ceremony was held in Bergen, Norway to celebrate the 2005 European Union Prize for Cultural…
As the summer sets in, how about exchanging your luxury hotel for a cave house, or swapping days spent lying on the…
Nebra is proving to be a rich archaeological area with the breaking news of the discovery of a lord and his retainers…