Issue 49/Travel/Turkey A postcard from Knidos I have returned to Knidos after 40 years. Across the decades you forget the outlines of the trenches and the stratigraphic relationships…
Issue 49/Travel/Vatican Vatican: Cults, Christianity and the Vatican A strange statue standing guard near the Sistine Chapel in Rome intrigues travel writer Nigel McGilchrist. Could the Vatican be sitting on…
Issue 48/Celebrating World Heritage/Features/Peru Machu Picchu: Cradle of Gold Exactly 100 years ago, the explorer Hiram Bingham found Machu Picchu on the eastern slopes of Peru’s soaring Andes mountains. He was…
Issue 48/Features/Spain Numantia: New Model Legion Numantia in north-eastern Spain is currently the most important Roman Republican military site in the world. Century-old landmark excavations have just been…
Issue 48/Features/Spain Mallorca: On the Edge of Empire During the Dark Ages on the island of Mallorca, culture and religion clashed between the fading Pagans of Rome and the Byzantine…
Issue 48/Features/Norway Norway: The First Oil Age The jagged coast of Northern Scandinavia is littered with strange stone-lined pits once thought to be ancient graves. In fact, they are…
Issue 48/Afghanistan/Features Afghanistan: A Divided Path Ten years after the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, what is happening to archaeology in this war-torn country? Joanie Meharry reports…