One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
When I went on holiday this year, I took with me some archaeological books for a little light reading. One of them…
Teenage girls wed old men shockIt sounds like a salacious headline from one of the red-tops, but actually this story comes from…
The Los Angeles Times recently reported (29 May 2009) that eBay has reduced the demand for looted antiquities. The story is based…
Morris and the PrinceHaving just written a new guide to Kelmscott Manor, your diarist has a growing admiration for William Morris, whose…
One should not start a project that one cannot complete. Having started writing a blog on the first day of my pilgrimage…
‘BIN09′ is the site code for this year’s season of the major new field project at the Roman fort of Binchester, run…
The Hadrian’s Wall pilgrimage is going well. The Pilgrimage is one of the great events of British archaeology. It began…
In view of the current debate about the rights and wrongs of suicide, Terry Jones in his recent book on ‘Barbarians’…
Deja vu The Times published a letter on 2 June 2009 signed by Professors Martin Biddle and Brian Fagan, who called on…
If your accounts for the year are not quite as good as you might wish– if, for instance, you make a loss…