Bulldozing new roads, using buildings as weapons … to the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, city warfare leaves clues in the very architecture. He’s piecing together the evidence
Israel brings Dead Sea scrolls to life with upgrade of digital archive
Website includes 10,000 new images, more manuscript descriptions and translated content, and a faster search engine
Former minister Zahi Hawass compares Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to pharaoh
Archaeologist and former antiquities minister says rise of army leader mirrors ascent of Mentuhotep II 4,000 years ago
Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East
Babylon’s hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder
A British academic has gathered evidence suggesting garden was created at Nineveh, 300 miles from Babylon
Israel unveils Herod’s archaeological treasures
Herod’s mausoleum headlines Israel’s most ambitious archaeological show but Palestinians say treasures should stay where they were found
Hope for the Egyptian Nubians damned by the dam
Half a century after the inundation, Nubians may finally have the prospect of compensation for the loss of their homeland