According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
Prompted by a session on the subject at an annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, the editors, working on the…
In 1839, the invention of the daguerreotype offered explorers a new way to document their travels, and within a year photographic pioneers…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…
The main challenge of studying pre-Christian Scandinavia is that written sources describing the period mainly post-date the region’s official conversion by centuries.…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
Excavation following the discovery of the tomb of Philip II in Vergina (see p20) posed two huge problems: how to preserve the…
The Ashmolean Museum’s new Egypt and Nubia galleries are now open to the public, after a £5m refurbishment. The project involved a…
At first glance Japanese castles appeared to have weathered the centuries unscathed, but looks can be deceptive. Here Stephen Turnbull contrasts Sendai…
The deadly wave that engulfed the northeastern coastline of Japan devastated many archaeological sites and museums. Prehistoric settlers along the coast chose…
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in Spring this year, archaeologist Simon Kaner insists there is much to celebrate…