From myths of the Minotaur to Cycladic sculpture, the influence of the ancient world on Picasso is well known. But a less familiar part of the artist’s relationship with the distant past is his fruitful engagement with the art of ancient Iberia, as Cécile…
Britain pulled out the red carpet last weekend, as world leaders arrived in Cornwall for this year's G7 summit. It wasn't the first time in history that power and pleasure have been so mixed, however. Indeed, last week's gathering would have seemed strangely familar to the 6,000 Englishmen and women who 501 years earlier accompanied their king, Henry VIII, as he crossed the Channel to join his French counterpart, Francis I, at the lavish three-week summit-cum-carnival known as the Field for the Cloth of Gold.…
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On the strength of stylistic comparisons, researchers have dated the feline to around 200 BC.…
And pretty Samos, and the palace of Croesus at Sardis,What of Smyrna and Colophon – better or worse than their fame?Or are…
Many museums and galleries around the world have recently reopened with safety measures in place, including compulsory booking and limits on visitor…
The first volume of The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece (1762) had an impressive 500 subscribers, but its influence…
As museums and heritage sites reopen, we’re looking forward to visiting our favourite spots as soon as possible – but there are…
While these types of brooch first appeared in Britain shortly after the Roman conquest in AD 43, they clearly include aspects of…
The Roman emperor Nero has long been reviled as a notorious tyrant, prone to lavish and often murderous excesses, who headed…
Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland’s earliest-known Viking Age hoard. In the years since its discovery in…
Urajiri is in the town of Minami Soma, impacted both by the tsunami and the meltdown, evacuated as it was in the…
Just decades after it was founded, ibn Tulun’s capital al-Qata’i‘ was razed to the ground. The Great…
A major exhibition delving into 5,000 years of art and design in Iran is set to open in…
After it was discovered hidden in a Roman temple with other works of art, a bronze statue of…
The Rosetta Stone was the key to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The results of Jean-François Champollion’s…
Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, famously sank in the Solent almost 500 years ago. Her partial remains…
Thirty years ago, the wreck of the Mary Rose, pride of Henry VIII’s navy, rose from the seabed…
Why should we study airfields – and do these sites even count as archaeology? Bob Clarke makes…
The arsenal of iron shot that was carried aboard Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, may have once…
How do you begin to analyse a corroded mass of almost 70,000 Celtic coins? Neil Mahrer guides us…
Sutton Hoo is best known as the location of an astonishing ‘princely’ Anglo-Saxon ship burial – but the…
