Warwick Ball


Warwick Ball is an Australia-born Near-Eastern archaeologist.
Ball has been involved in excavations, architectural studies and monumental restorations in Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. As a lecturer, he has been involved with travel tours in Jordan, Iran, Syria, Crimea, Israel, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Ball was formerly director of excavations at The British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He is the editor of the scholarly journal Afghanistan. His publications include Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide and the volume The Monuments of Afghanistan, History, Archaeology and Architecture which consists of photography of numerous rare archaeological sites no longer well accessible today for reasons of security.
He resides in Scotland.

Select publications

  • Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan
  • Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide
  • Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire
  • The Monuments of Afghanistan, History, Archaeology and Architecture
  • Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the Discovery of Europe
  • Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West
  • Sultans of Rome: The Turkish World Expansion
  • The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas
  • ''Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest''