Cynoscephalae, 197 BC
Brian English analyses the battle that broke the military power of Ancient Greece.
Hellenistic
Delos: discovering a submerged Hellenistic city
Following an initial season of underwater excavation in the Aegean Sea, Mantha Zarmakoupi talks to CWA about the rise and fall of the trading emporium of Delos.
Butrint: finding a timeless oasis
Shortly after the end of the Cold War, exactly a decade before CWA was launched, Richard Hodges walked through the ruins at Butrint. Here, he looks back over 20 years of discovery and excavation at this ancient city that sits on the idyllic shores of the Ionian Sea.
Olympic link on Antikythera Mechanism
In CWA 30 we reported on recent research to understand the 2,000 year old scientific instrument salvaged from a Roman ship that sank off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in the 1st century BC. Since then, Mike…
Georgia’s treasures: from the Land of the Golden Fleece
The latest exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, features a wealth of archaeology from Vani in Georgia. Nicola Upson reports.
Ancient Greek calculator reconstructed
The mechanism was used to predict the positions of the sun, the moon, the phases of the moon and possibly planetary motions.