Archaeology Worldwide

02/10/2022

In issue #7, David Miles reflects on the legacy of the Great War and its lessons for today's world.
https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/post/the-legacy-of-war

29/09/2022

Probing Tutankhamen’s dynasty. In issue #7 of Archaeology Worldwide, Guy de la Bédoyère explores despotism in Ancient Egypt.

As featured in Archaeology Worldwide #7 Egyptology tends to be characterised by an endless fascination with the gold and glamour, and obsessive fixations with the identity of royal mummies. Most of us are beguiled by Ancient Egypt, and few can deny the magnificence of its temples or monumental statu...

26/09/2022

Read Prof. Brian Fagan's feature on Çatalhöyük, Central Turkey, arguably the earliest town in the world, was occupied from around 1700 BC- 5700. Find out more here https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/issue-7

As featured in Archaeology Worldwide magazine issue #7 Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, arguably the earliest town in the world, was occupied from around 1700 BC- 5700. Its people lived through dramatically changing times, harnessing strong ancestorial ties and complex spiritual beliefs. Composed en...

31/03/2022

Ever wondered if blue really is for boys? Read our feature on gender through time at Exact Editions https://institutions.exacteditions.com/links/feminismandgenderequality/historyoffeminism

Suffragettes, second wave feminism and prominent figures from centuries gone by

18/03/2022

Our animal minds

What do you see? Do your eyes quickly discern the various, sometimes half-rendered animals? If you look hard enough, do random faces emerge too?

This is your human mind at work. You are seeing exactly what the ancient artists intended. All is explained in the lead feature of the NEW issue of Archaeology Worldwide OUT NOW (read the full feature via link in bio).

Discover HOW humans see, and the very origins of art. A mix of archaeology and psychology, you may never see the world in the same way again…

Image one: Bison from the Altamira Cave in Spain, c.17,000 years ago.

Image two: archaeo Paul Pettitt in the El Castillo Cave in Spain. He has his hands over two ancient hand stencils, note the weird play of the shadows, and the way the contours of the rock alter their shape.

Research by a brilliant team from Durham University, UK

18/03/2022

SPRING ISSUE OUT NOW!

Discover Ice Age rock art, the Jomon of Japan, Thailand's superburials, Stonehenge, and much, much more.

Get your copy at www.archaeologyworldwide.com

ARCHAEOLOGY WORLDWIDE magazine digs deep into ALL aspects of human history, over ALL time periods, in ALL areas of the world. Written and edited by leading experts, ARCHAEOLOGY WORLDWIDE entertains, informs, delights, and provokes. Each issue contains features on the latest finds, excavations, resea...

17/03/2022

Tutankhamun has generated many controversies, which continue a century after his discovery. His sepulchre is, after all, the only undisturbed Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb ever excavated scientifically.

Among the more noteworthy finds was a gold-hilted dagger with a blade fabricated from meteoric iron. But where did the dagger originate?

Read more in our news section 👇

Latest on manufacture and origin of Tutankhamun’s unusual meteoritic iron dagger. Tutankhamun has generated many controversies, which continue a century after his discovery. His sepulchre is, after all, the only undisturbed Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb ever excavated scientifically. And ten decades o...

16/03/2022

A group of archaeologists and paleontologists noticed the women of their field were being forgotten. So they made the Trowelblazers, an archive featuring female achievement in the "digging sciences."

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A group of archaeologists and paleontologists noticed the women of their field were being forgotten. So they made the Trowelblazers, an archive featuring female achievement in the "digging sciences."

16/03/2022

Across Ukraine, artists, gallerists, curators and museum directors are desperately but carefully unhooking, wrapping and stashing away the country’s hefty cultural endowment as Vladimir Putin’s onslaught closes in.

As Russian bombs drop, Ukrainians unite to protect precious artworks.

11/03/2022

Spring Issue out now.

In this issue of Archaeology Worldwide... discover the connected world of Stonehenge at the British Museum.



Explore how you see (faces, faces everywhere?) and learn how this might explain the origins of art in Our Animal Minds. This is a ground-breaking feature by a superb team from Durham University.



Join Charles Higham in Thailand as he unlocks the secrets of the superburials. Read the latest story of the Jomon, as told by NYT best-selling author, Brian Fagan.

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PLUS columns, reviews, and more – including a tour of Lindisfarne with DigVentures. This issue concludes with a tribute to colleague Neil Faulkner from Andrew Marr, Tom Holland, and others.

09/03/2022

07/03/2022

Ukraine museum professionals are trying to safeguard work despite a shortage of accessible storage facilities.

A shortage of accessible storage facilities within Ukraine is an an ongoing issue for museum professionals trying to safeguard work.

03/03/2022

Getty said: “The material cultural heritage of the world is our common heritage, the identity and inspiration for all humanity. Cultural heritage has the power to unite us and is critical for achieving peace.

It is also too often the target of war, another way to destroy and overtake a society by erasing its memory.”

Museum housing folk art already destroyed as other institutions fear works could be looted and warnings over world heritage sites

03/03/2022

Civilian specialists are tracking the threat to landmarks in Ukraine as the U.S. Army struggles after more than two years to appoint new cultural heritage preservation specialists modeled after the “Monuments Men.”

18/02/2022

Homo sapiens at Mandrin Cave

Both Neanderthal and modern human bones have come from the cave, dated to about 54,000 years ago. This date is some 10,000 years earlier than many estimates of the first settlement of Europe by moderns.

Read more in our news section:
https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/post/homo-sapiens-at-mandrin-cave

17/02/2022

Norfolk newspaper tribute to Neil Faulkner, one of our founders.

Obituary: Internationally renowned archaeologist, Dr Neil Faulkner, who founded a pioneering community archaeology project in Norfolk, dies.

17/02/2022

~~~👨‍🏫 The History Fix 👨‍🏫~~~
A series of lectures by our friend Dr Neil Faulkner
(22 Jan 1958- 4 Feb 2022), co-founder of Archaeology Worldwide.

This episode delves into our very beginnings: Who are we as a species and how did we evolve?

How our biological evolution created a species defined by conceptual thinking, collective labour, and social co-operation. ///Neil Faulkner's book A Radical ...

16/02/2022

Archaeologists in China have discovered a rare double burial, or “lovers’ tomb,” featuring the skeletons of a man and woman locked in an eternal embrace.

Though the grave is 1,500 years old, she still wears a plain silver band on her ring finger.

Archaeologists discovered a rare double burial, or "lovers' tomb," with the skeletons of a man and woman locked in an endless embrace.

05/02/2022

Neil Faulkner (22 Jan 1958-4 Feb 2022)

It is with immense sadness that we write of the death of our friend, the co-founder and contributing editor of Archaeology Worldwide, Dr Neil Faulkner.

Neil was well-known as a fieldwork archaeologist, historian, author, magazine editor, lecturer, broadcaster, and political activist.

We have uploaded a series of films on the history of the world, from Neil’s perspective, on our website.

Neil, you were one of a kind.



Dr Neil Faulkner died in the early hours of Friday 4 February from leukaemia. Our love to his family and to all of his many friends.

04/02/2022

"Moving from one floor to the next, the visitor treads the same staircase where the mutineers of 1917 stormed up into the imperial apartments with their bayonetted rifles. The walls ooze the stuff of modern myth and legend."

Join Oliver Gilkes in his journey through Soviet-era archaeology, beginning in the Hermitage (pictured) to the distant steppe of Central Asia.

You can read his whole article in our latest issue of Archaeology Worldwide. Subscribe here for more:
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04/02/2022

03/02/2022

Is that you, Julius Caesar?

This marble bust was found in the Rhône River near Arles, France.

There is much debate over the veracity that this is Caesar’s portrait…Then again ‘one skinny, balding Roman looks much like another’, writes David Miles in his column in the latest issue of Archaeology Worldwide.

To read more, and for a tour through Arles, see issue #5 of ArchWW: https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/


David Miles is the former Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage, and author of ‘The Tribes of Britain’.

The bust is on show at the museum in Arles: Musée Départmental Arles Antique.

02/02/2022

Archaeologists have found one of the oldest known Buddhist temples in the city of Barikot, in the Swat region of Pakistan.

Archaeologists have found one of the oldest known Buddhist temples in the city of Barikot, in the Swat region of Pakistan. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

02/02/2022

Archaeologists don't know why the horse was decapitated.

02/02/2022

Archaeologists investigated 664 graves in a 15-square-mile (40 square kilometers) zone that contained 44 mortuary sites. They documented 192 examples of posts threaded with vertebrae.

Some of the reed-threaded vertebrae date to nearly 600 years ago.

28/01/2022

"Archaeologists are tasked with exploring the history of civilizations and those who lived in them — including humans and animals. But the field itself, and, therefore, often the subsequent stories that are told, hasn’t been dominated by people of color. And that can commonly mean that some stories are not being told, or if they are, the authenticity may be lacking."

Here is a clip in anticipation of the newest season of Sapiens, which will focus on the voices and stories within indigenous archaeology.

Archaeologists are tasked with exploring the history of civilizations and those who lived in them — including humans and animals. But the field itself, and, therefore, often the subsequent stories that are told, hasn’t been dominated by people of color. And that can commonly mean that some stori...

26/01/2022

"As changing weather patterns continue to dry out peatlands, the buried artefacts they contain could be destroyed."

As changing weather patterns continue to dry out peatlands, the buried artefacts they contain could be destroyed. One such famous find was that of Lindow Man, a preserved body of a man believed to be from the Iron Age that was discovered in a peat bog in Cheshire in 1984.

25/01/2022

Curious about social networking in the past?

Ostrich eggshell beads in Africa are revealing much more about how commodities were exchanged in old social networks across the continent.

Read more on our website: 👇
https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/post/original-social-network

Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000 year old African social network. Ostrich eggshells are far from dramatic finds in African archaeological sites. But they are beginning to tell an important story. While human DNA can tell us a great deal about genetic interactions between people, it doesn’t rev...