We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece Jenifer Neils British Museum Press, pb £14.99 The Ancient Greeks for Dummies Stephen Batchelor,…
Alexandra has suffered badly. The once magnificent city has been a quarry for builders throughout the ages. In AD 836 it was…
This title is a general survey of the classical world, but one which includes material on the Etruscans alongside the Greeks and…
Henri Cartier-Bresson was certainly no archaeologist, but his mid-20th century photographs of ancient sites and cultural traditions, especially in Asia, will be…
‘The paintings handed down by my ancestors are perhaps the most important of the Jodhpur royal collections’, writes the present maharaja of…
For the next two decades, tourists visiting Palenque were told that the body was that of an unknown Maya king. Then, in…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
This is a dramatic, broad-brush treatment of ten millennia of European prehistory, written on the principle that ‘geography is about chaps, history…
Why did the western half of the Roman Empire fall? Did it fall at all – or was it peacefully transformed into…