Ancient World Magazine

Ancient World Magazine

We publish well-researched and engaging material about the ancient world, created by academically-trained archaeologists and ancient historians who are passionate about the past.

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Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean

Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean

A new Companion published by Brill

Jason C. Morris

16 min read

Context matters

Context matters

Tackling a bad-faith argument against current iconoclasm

Josho Brouwers, Matthew Lloyd, and Joshua R. Hall

6 min read

A “landscape of memory”

A “landscape of memory”

Knossos in the Early Iron Age

13 min read

Statues are not mere symbols

Statues are not mere symbols

Material culture is meaningfully constituted

5 min read

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West

A book from 2003 by Guy Halsall

13 min read

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Depictions of two sackings of Troy on the pediments of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina

12 min read

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 2

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 2

Podcast podcast #11

7 June 2020

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 1

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 1

Podcast podcast #10

31 May 2020

Death on Paros

Death on Paros

The twelfth-century destruction of Koukounaries

13 min read

Dancing figures from Ayia Irini

Dancing figures from Ayia Irini

Clay sculptures of the Bronze Age

6 min read

The Lion of Kea

The Lion of Kea

An Archaic enigma

6 min read

Why abandon the phalanx?

Why abandon the phalanx?

Problems from Rome

Joshua R. Hall and Roel Konijnendijk

16 min read