We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…
The cover says it all – or seems to. A gung-ho romp through the sandy wastes of the Arabian Empty Quarter in…
Anniversaries are always good for the reading public, as publishers issue sumptuous books which at other times are often uneconomic. It’s the…
Edited by Eleanor Robson, Luke Treadwell and Chris Gosden Oxbow books £24 This consists of nine essays that had their origin in…
Peter Watson and Cecili Todeschini Public Affairs Books £15.99 This is very much a Cowboys and Indians sort of book chronicling the…
By Jonathan Tokeley, Imprint Academic, Exeter, £25 Is the tide turning in the ‘cultural heritage crusade’? For a generation or more, it…
In his best selling book The Da Vinci Code, the author Dan Brown says that there are just two facts in the…
Let us learn a few hieroglyphs. Let us start with a straight line. This obviously means ‘land’ because in Egypt all the…
Unfolding History: Castles, Fortresses and Citadels is almost a superb book. It is a follow up to the author’s earlier Unfolding History,…
The earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, while while Homo sapiens have existed for a mere 160,000 years. The ancient…
Calima and Malagana is a luxuriously-presented book that offers the fruits of nearly a quarter century of research in the Calima and…
At Pompeii, an election was in full swing when it was rudely interrupted by Vesuvius. Election slogans are everywhere, over 3,000 of…