Archaeology, History & Culture

One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …

In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …

An elite woman who read ‘Migration Woman Vogue’. In January 1910, gold jewellery and bones were accidentally uncovered near the village of …

I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

You’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …

So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

The French woman had parted the curtains, and was peering out into the stormy night. *** There are up-sides and down-sides to …

In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …