Ben Westwood, Finds Liaison Officer for Durham, Darlington & Teesside, has responded on Twitter to my earlier post about the silver s...

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 ...

Ha! That was an interesting outcome. Paul Barford, an archaeologist, highlighted a recent Twitter announcement by Jo Ahmet, the Finds Lia...

Figure 1 Inspired by a recent article on 'How to Spot Fake Cuneiform Tablets', I've decided to do the same for fake ancient...

Many years ago, when more than half of the UK was still on dial-up internet access, my specialist interest in Classical lychnology became ...

Donald Michael Bailey, a major force in the field of lychnology, was one of my heroes when I was a kid. I would buy Roman lamps in antique...

There appear to be common misconceptions about a Convention adopted at the 16th General Conference of UNESCO on 14 November 1970 in Paris...

I note a rather sumptuous guide to the treasures of the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait (billed as "one of the world’s most spectacular...

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

A resentment of museums* apparently stockpiling thousands of "surplus" artefacts rather than selling them and allowing private c...

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...

I have always stressed the importance of keeping records of artefacts - not only as a means of establishing whether a piece was recently ...

London is incredibly rich in museums and while tourists make a beeline to the more famous ones, some of the lesser known exhibitions get o...

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

Donna Yates has whipped up an arousing post about a manuscript pumped out in 1785 by the Marquis de Sade, " The 120 Days of Sodom ...

I see John Howland, a metal detectorist who I mentioned in an earlier post , has kindly included me in distinguished company in a comment to...

What do you do when you need to return a loan back to the place you borrowed it from only to find you're no longer quite sure who owns...