Features/Issue 84 The Scythians: discovering the nomad-warriors of Siberia The Greeks called them Scythians, the Assyrians and Achaemenid Persians called them Saka. We know them only through their lavish funeral remains.…
Issue 84/Italy/Travel Travel: Molise, Italy Searching for Samnites in the ‘Region of Little Cities’ Surprisingly few people have heard of Molise. Yet this is one of…
Issue 83/Sicily/Travel Travel: Greek Temples of Sicily Richard Hodges tours the island’s Greek temples. Sicily in February. Cheating winter with the smell of new grass and the first flowers…
Ethiopia/Features/Issue 83/Issues Forgotten kingdom: Searching for lost royalty from the days of the Aksumite Empire In 2015, CWA reported on the discovery by Louise Schofield of the remarkable grave of a young woman she nicknamed ‘Sleeping Beauty’.…
Features/Issue 83/Issues/Spain Beyond the Pillars of Hercules – Excavating an Iron Age seat of power A new discovery deep in the Guadiana Valley of the Iberian Peninsula is revealing the secrets of a little-known and intriguing Iron…
Greece/Issue 82/Issues/Travel Travel: Thasos With guidebook in hand, Martin Davies explores the untrammelled heritage of an idyllic Greek island. I first came across Thasos as a schoolboy reading…
Brazil/Features/Issue 82/Issues Circles of mystery: Strange ancient earthworks in Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest Hundreds of enigmatic earthworks lay hidden for millennia beneath what was thought to be virgin rainforest. Who built them, and why? In…