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

While Turkish police have proudly announced the seizure of a "large number of historical artifacts, including the head of a 2,000-yea...

In an online discussion stimulated by the recent news that one of the Parthenon marbles has been loaned to Russia, one person posed the f...

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

Humour - a vanishing resource? Archaeologist Dr Donna Yates recently expressed her worry that her scholarly research on the origins of...

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...