Banksy has made himself very rich with witty examples of the genre, and both Historic England and the National Trust now conserve and celebrate historic graffiti.…
Museums and sculptors should work more closely with archaeologists and palaeontologists to recreate the appearance of our extinct ancestors.…
Abydos was not only the earliest brewery and the forerunner of the great royal cemeteries... it was also the birthplace of the funeral wake and possibly too of the mass hangover.…
Economics cannot be used to measure the emotional, educational, psychological, spiritual, health, and social benefits of heritage – all the things that make life worth living.…
At a time of food scarcity, obesity became a desirable condition… the Venus figurines represented an ideal body type.…
To gasps of genuine astonishment from the audience, he showed slides of objects so pristine in their gold and garnet glory...…
As every archaeologist knows, listed buildings and scheduled monuments represent the tip of the heritage iceberg.…
Today, 757 synagogues are deemed to be at risk, which illustrates the scale of the task facing the FJH in its mission to ‘celebrate and honour Europe’s lost Jewish communities’ and rescue these emblematic buildings as ‘powerful places of education’ offering ‘valuable insights into Jewish life and its impact on…
Christopher Catling employs joined-up thinking in his regular column on the eccentricities of the heritage world…
No doubt those early Christians would say it was relatively mild revenge for the sufferings of the martyrs.…