Seismic Map Zagreb is located in a zone of high seismic activity and a 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck a wide area around the city ...

Ever since a bronze statue of Apollo surfaced - and then promptly disappeared - in Gaza over five years ago, historians, curators, colle...

Dave Welsh, an American dealer in ancient coins, has expressed his hope that the recent US election will lead to a relaxing of measures d...

Since many people recoil in indignation that anyone can dare to tell them what to do on their private land, I thought it might be interest...

Dave Welsh, an American coin dealer and member of the ACCG , remarks that 'decontextualisation' is "an obviously coined word ...

Dr Donna Yates has called attention on her blog ( Anonymous Swiss Collector , 18 February 2016) to an event to be held on 1 March in New ...

You probably know the type. Here in the UK, some of us occasionally have the misfortune to come across them in the pub. If they sense you ...

It is clear that the controversial  pastime of metal detecting in the UK, even in cases where finds have been officially reported, has occ...

I just glanced at the title of a blog post by trade lobbyist Peter Tompa ("Let’s facilitate Lawful Trade and the Appreciation of Ital...

Very sad to learn that Margaret Rule CBE passed away on Thursday, 9 April. Her passion for archaeology was highly infectious and I fondly ...

In my previous post about a fake head of Hermes prematurely announced by Turkish authorities, I mentioned that there were many other case...

As an addendum to my previous post outlining a few changes that I would like to see in the way metal detecting is approached, I would urg...

Never say never. I did conclude my last post on this topic by saying that was all I had to say on it. However, I should try to clarify an...

Continuing on from my previous blog post about a debate on conservation , here is a copy of my latest comment sent to Andy Baines's bl...

When Paul Barford lamented the fate of the almost one million artefacts recorded by the PAS (" Where have Eleven Million Objects Gone...

My previous post about the response to an article in Biblical Archaeology Review has received a lengthy comment (split into two parts) f...

The president of the Society for American Archaeology, Jeff Altschul, voices his frustration at the damage done by metal detectorists and ...

After several false claims that the Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue in the Jobar neighbourhood of Damascus had been destroyed in the ongoing con...

Peter Tompa, a lawyer lobbying on behalf of American coin dealers, enthuses over the coin collection of Eric Newman , an elderly authorit...

"Hathor lamp" On an online coin forum in September last year, someone living in Libya posted an image of a purportedly ancient...