When imagining the ancient city of Petra, it is the awe-inspiring façade of the monument known today as the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) that…
In 1703, Robert Drury, aged 16, was shipwrecked on the south coast of Madagascar. For the next 13 years he was a…
This is the seventh edition of Coe’s Maya, a readable and enjoyable richly illustrated introduction to the New World civilisation. Here, the…
Campaign to rescue Roman bath site at Allianoi…
G.J. Tassie of the Cultural Heritage Organisation, looks at some of the recent undertakings in Egypt…
The latest discoveries at KV5, the largest ancient Egyptian tomb ever discovered in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor…
A detailed look at the finest mosaics discovered anywhere in the Roman world for a generation, recently discovered in the desert city…
The new Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. CWA investigates the fate of archaeology…
In early June a glittering European Awards Ceremony was held in Bergen, Norway to celebrate the 2005 European Union Prize for Cultural…
University College London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has won the Classic Award at the Museum & Heritage Awards for Excellence 2005,…
Nebra is proving to be a rich archaeological area with the breaking news of the discovery of a lord and his retainers…
Currently on exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is an example of what many art historians regard as the Romans’ most significant artistic…
Researchers suspect the corpse of Oetzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its…