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…
Instead of plastic toys that will be broken before Christmas dinner, how about one of the British Museum pocket series as stocking-fillers…
According to the archaeologist Manolis Andronikos, the Royal Tombs of Vergina, in northern Greece, belong to King Phillip II (388-336 BC) and…
John Preston’s The Dig, a story about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo, has now been published in paperback. It…
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…