Features/Issue 104 Special Report: AI and ancient languages A new tool, launched this year on the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, offers a novel high-tech way to…
Features/Iraq/Issue 104/Object Lesson Sumerian Plaque This low-relief limestone carving, dating to c.2400 BC, formed part of a larger votive wall plaque in a Sumerian temple in southern…
Easter Island/Features/Issue 104/Rapanui Ruins on Rapa Nui On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…
Features/Issue 104 Tantra Tantra’s appeal has proven remarkably broad. What began on the margins of Indian society went on to command the patronage of royalty…
Features/Issue 104/Turkey Discovering Roman mosaics When hotel construction work unearthed extraordinary mosaics, the owners decided to create a new archaeological park. It showcases what is believed to…
Issue 103/Serbia/Travel Travel: A Villa in the Country Journeying south from the Serbian Danube presents an opportunity to revel in Roman opulence, as Oliver Gilkes reveals. The Danubian provinces of…
Albania/Issue 103/Travel Richard Hodges: The Visit of the World Bank President Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…