What was it like for a barbarian to become Roman? In the book that I am writing in my retirement, or semi-retirement,…
It is one of the most obvious observations we are routinely required to make. We uncover an artefact: say a fragment of Mycenaean pot…
Some of our favourite ‘fairy stories’ go back to the Bronze Age, if not before, according to the authors of a paper published in the Royal…
Spending a crusader penny To most of us, lavatories are ‘yuck’, but to archaeologists they can be gold – especially if you…
Egypt's former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs fell into archaeology by chance, yet it came to dominate his life. Dr Zahi…
Swanning around Older readers will recall the television career of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and his enormous impact on budding young archaeologists through…
UK, Iraqi, and Iranian archaeologists are uniting for the sake of preserving world heritage. Is this, Roger Matthews asks, a model for…
The modern mind The British Museum’s (superb) current exhibition is called ‘Ice Age Art’ – though some say it might be more…
Non Ban Jak will soon be slumbering again in the heat of the dry season here in Northeast Thailand. The huge mound…
Tom St John Gray reports on the legacy of the atomic bomb: is it heritage, horror, or both?…
We may not know exactly how they looked, we certainly do not know how they sounded. But the art of our earliest…
Unicorn lair found North Korea seems to live in a parallel universe where truth is concerned. Even the name – Democratic People’s…