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An enduring landscape: Uncovering 8,000 years of life and death on the Cotswold Edge
Recent excavations at Milestone Ground on the eastern edge of Broadway have revealed one of the most intriguing archaeological landscapes yet found in Worcestershire. Beneath quiet pasture lay evidence of human activity stretching back 8,000 years, including Mesolithic flint tools, Bronze Age burials, hundreds of Iron Age storage pits, a Roman farmstead, and the largest late Roman cemetery known in the county. Constance Mitchell reports.
Llanbedrgoch: Exploring a unique early medieval trading centre on Anglesey
Ninth-century Carolingian coins from the reigns of Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald are not the sort of objects you would expect to find on a remote farm on the Isle of Anglesey, so, when metal-detectorists began reporting these and other exceptional artefacts from the early medieval period, the National Museum of Wales (now Amgueddfa Cymru) sent Mark Redknap, then Curator of Medieval and Later Archaeology, to investigate. Between 1994 and 2012, Mark led ten seasons of fieldwork on the site, revealing the remains of a trading settlement with a form unparalleled in Wales. With the full report recently published, Chris Catling describes its key findings.
Railway siding from the 19th century revealed in Huddersfield
It is believed these were used to house and maintain trains on the Manchester & Huddersfield Railway
Hilary Wilson on… fish in ancient Egypt
In this issue HW looks at how this major source of protein was shared among the ancient Egyptian population, and asks, “Who ate all the fish?”
Ptolemaic tomb discovered at Akhmim
The rock-cut tomb consists of the remains of a mud brick courtyard, with a descending staircase leading to two rooms.
Does a hidden door in Tutankhamun’s tomb lead to Nefertiti?
Nicholas Reeves claims the north wall of KV62 originally depicted Tutankhamun burying Nefertiti and was later overpainted to show Ay burying Tutankhamun.
Shrine containing headless falcons found at Berenike
The discovery dates to the Late Roman Period when the city was occupied by a nomadic people known as the Blemmyes,
Medicine and healing practices in ancient Egypt
Rosalie David and Roger Forshaw present a new perspective on healthcare in ancient Egypt.
Oldest charred food remains shine light on Palaeolithic cooking techniques
Research suggests that, for Neanderthals and early modern humans, flavour was an important consideration during food preparation.
Tutankhamun’s canopic coffin
A detailed look at one of four coffinettes which held the king’s mummified organs.
First ever ancient DNA extracted from canopic jars
The team analysed the contents of 90 jars from eight European museums
New discoveries at Roman Period Temple of Esna
An Egyptian team has discovered a cache containing a number of coins from different historical eras
Warrior Tutankhamun: fragile pharaoh no more
In this special anniversary issue celebrating a hundred years since the discovery of KV62, we begin with new evidence that Bob Brier believes will change how we view Egypt’s most famous pharaoh.
In Carter’s footsteps: a legacy in epigraphy
Tutankhamun and Howard Carter: two men whose lives are separated by more than three thousand years, but now and forever intertwined in the annals of history. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922 would seal the fate of both men and have long-lasting implications for the study and popularity of ancient Egypt. But Carter’s contribution to Egyptology goes much further than his leading role in the world’s most famous archaeological discovery, as Carl Graves reports.
The First Resurrection of Tutankhamun
Continuing our 100th anniversary celebration of the finding of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Aidan Dodson looks at the ‘prehistory’ of the king, and how early scholars pieced together the evidence for this obscure king prior to the discovery of his tomb in 1922.
Milestones in Egyptology: the discovery and clearance of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter’s long search in the Valley of the Kings is rewarded.
Meat stews were on the menu in Mesopotamia, study finds
Analysis of Beveled Rim Bowls excavated from a Late Chalcolithic site in Iraq has challenged traditional interpretations that they were used for distributing cereal rations to state-dependent labourers.
CWA 116 Crossword, and answers to 115
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CWA 116 Letters
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Decorated ivories
What is it? This collection of decorated ivory plaques found in Jerusalem was probably once inlaid in a piece of ornate wooden furniture. The plaques, which are believed to date to the
Pirates, Portuguese, and ladies in purdah: new discoveries at the Old Fort of Stone Town
Timothy Power and Mark Horton present some of the latest discoveries made during recent excavations at the Old Fort of Stone Town, Zanzibar.