New thinking in scholarship
A paper is not necessarily of value because it is heretical, of course; it may just be wrong.
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Penn Museum: a museum for the coming decades
The symbol of the new Penn Museum is in the refurbished main entrance hall. On a prominent podium behind the ticket desks sits the Museum’s celebrated sphinx. Richard Hodges reports.
Preserving and presenting heritage
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 wider society’.
Towards a National Collection
Christopher Catling employs joined-up thinking in his regular column on the eccentricities of the heritage world
Excavating the CA archive: Yorkshire 2
From Captain Cook’s Cottage to Romans in the East Riding: Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from Yorkshire
Cancel culture
No doubt those early Christians would say it was relatively mild revenge for the sufferings of the martyrs.
In Praise of Antiquity
There is no email I await with greater anticipation and, indeed, trepidation, than one captioned ‘Your radiocarbon results’.
Beatles landmarks
Christopher Catling highlights threats to Fab Four-related buildings in their home city of Liverpool
Excavating the CA Archive: Yorkshire 1
The archaeological riches of God’s Own Country: Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from the past
Excavating the CA Archive: Derbyshire
Peak prehistory and Britain’s first cave art: Joe Flatman explores half a century of reports from Derbyshire
Sherds: The good, the bad and the ugly
‘Context is all’: as the culture wars heat up, Christopher Catling looks at the problems of our contested heritage
Before the flood
The study found that 37 of the 49 World Heritage Sites are already at risk from floods, and 42 from erosion, although the level of risk varies from site to site, with Venice and Ravenna particularly at risk from flooding, and Samos and Tyre from erosion
Albania: the visit of the World Bank President
Let me go back over a quarter-century to Albania on a blissful autumn day in 1995 when, like a Martian, the President of the World Bank descended upon us.
Chania: a new year’s day hike
Ancient Kydonia, as Chania was known to Homer, owes its origins – like Knossos – to Neolithic times.
Lascaux IV
As far as I could tell, every minor contour of the original has been replicated, as of course have the paintings themselves.
Sherds: East meets West
Christopher Catling examines new evidence of the ancient links between Celtic Britain and the eastern Mediterranean
Discovering Denny
Charles Higham looks at how a routine DNA analysis resulted in a stunning discovery about the prehistory of our human past
Excavating the CA Archive: Sutton Hoo revisited
Joe Flatman re-examines half a century of reports on one of the spiritual homes of British archaeology
Adventures close to home
Many of us have developed a stronger appreciation of the natural and cultural heritage in our own back yards.
Albania and the Death of Pan
Devil or pastoral sprite and mischief-maker, Pan’s presence in the form of the lost sanctuary on Mount Mile lends a new dimension to the god’s story