Archaeological Diggings

Sept 2015 Issue | Vol 22 No 5

Articles in This Issue:

An Exile in Babylon

Let's look at the historicity and accuracy of a long-disputed, even ignored, archaeological source - the Bible

Tales from the Silk Road

For more than millennium, traders braved the hazards of mountain and desert along the Silk Road seeking the wealth of the East. And at its western end was Parthia, strategically situation to benefit.

Hippocrates: A Modern Mind in the Ancient World

A look at the ancient origins of modern medical practice, established in ancient Greece.

Lesser-known Female Rulers of Egypt

Much has been written about those better known female rulers of ancient Egypt—Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra. But less familiar female rulers also made a mark.

Looted in Syria, Sold in London

On the hunt for "blood antiquities" in London – so far no-one has worked out how to stop it.

Titus: Harbinger of Destruction

His rule was short, and characterised by disasters natural and man-made

Ancient and Modern Psychics

Editors comments with Gary Webster

The Archaeologist: Archibald Henry Sayce

Archibald Sayce is recognised as a giant among archaeologists; he succeeded in just about everything he set his mind to. But his life didn’t begin that way