Travel

Arctic: digging in permafrost

What is archaeology in the Arctic like? Matilda Siebrecht shares its challenges and charms.

Mexico: Day of the Dead

Long-held traditions evolve and gain new elements with every generation. Current World Archaeology's Carly Hilts travelled to Mexico for the Day of the Dead to find out more.

BELOW The compitum, showing the platform with round altar and pedestal of Aulus Granius, honorific bench, and water basin looking north east. The excavation photograph from 1966 (inset) shows the marble semi circular base for the honorific seat as discovered in situ, in front of Granius’ two monuments.

Albania and the Death of Pan

Devil or pastoral sprite and mischief-maker, Pan’s presence in the form of the lost sanctuary on Mount Mile lends a new dimension to the god’s story

Cyclades: Homage to Dhaskalio

My trip, then, was a pilgrimage of sorts, to visit Colin Renfrew and his newly-found sanctuary.

One of the magnificent six: secrets from the Byzantine city of Shivta

How did cities come to flourish in the Negev Desert? George Nash has gone in search of Shivta’s former glory.

Right The Viking round fortress at Trelleborg, in western Zealand, was excavated in the 1930s when it was threatened with redevelopment as a motor racing circuit. Today, it is one of Europe’s iconic archaeological monuments. What lessons do Denmark’s approaches to site presentation hold for Tuscany?

Denmark’s Viking fortresses: a Tuscan challenge

Richard Hodges explores the Viking fortresses at Trelleborg and Borgring.

It was a splendid tour: we stayed in 9 different hotels over 16 days, which meant that we were always on the move. But this was just what we wanted, for we explored the heart of the historic country and saw – if briefly – most of the best-known archaeological sites.

CALAKMUL

Alice Stevens ventures deep into the Mexican jungle where, surrounded by the echoing screech of howler monkeys, Calakmul rises above the canopy, and takes a stand as the most impressive Mayan temple remaining today.

Below Looking towards the southern approach to Antigonea.

Antigonea: exploring an Illyrian city in Albania

Sarah Lindsell journeys across the Albanian hills to the 3rd-century BC Greek city of King Pyrrhus.

Below Within the walls of the C.ittadella in Victoria: view across the rear enclosed spaces of the houses.

Gozo, Malta

From Malta, we now travel to its sister-island Gozo, where Nadia Durrani encountered two new major restoration projects.

Travels to Malta

At the far end of Valletta, within the massive angular bulwarks of the fortress of St Elmo poking out at the entrance of the Grand Harbour, is a museum devoted to the town’s history and its struggle for survival.

The Past

Travels to Armenia

The year 2015 is a sad one for Armenia: it marks the centenary of the great massacre of its people by the Turks, when over a million died in what many call the ‘Armenian Genocide'. But who are the Armenians? And where is Armenia? Andrew Selkirk goes in search.

Peru: using past technologies to solve future problems

Climate change and water shortages threaten the survival of rural communities in the Peruvian Andes. Robert Early explains how ancient Inca know-how is relevant today.

Main The Iron Age Cemetery at the Budinjak Archaeological Park. inset This 3rd millennium BC ceramic pot is featured on the Croatia’s 20 kuna banknote.

Zagreb and beyond: exploring Iron Age burial mounds on the Trail of Princes

Patrick Skinner sets out from the country's capital on a voyage of archaeological discovery.

South entrance to the Agora by the Tower of the Winds

A postcard from Athens

Athens conjures up ancient Greece and the civilisation symbolized by the fastidious re-building of the Parthenon. Yet Athens boasts possibly the most extensive remains of any Roman city in Greece. Why should this matter? Well, for the imperial Romans, Greece…