Archaeology/Archaeologists

Looting the Looters: Theft at the British Museum

What happens when the looters are looted?  Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another.  One therefore greets the realisation that the British Museum has been suffering a number of such cases with some smugness.  What makes them even more striking is the inability of staff to have picked up […]

Country for Bad Dreams

Koonalda Cave This is quite shocking,” declared South Australia’s Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher. “These caves are some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of that part of the country.” That evidence was subtracted this month by acts of vandalism inflicted on artwork in Koonalda Cave on the Nullarbor Plain, claimed to […]
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Lingering Peculiarities: Slavery and Manumission in the Roman Empire

The question does not bear asking, but in a global economy greased by what has been termed disposable people, the past’s previous examples of the same may be a country worth visiting.  The prod along for such a journey came with the discovery of yet another gem from the ruins of Pompeii.  The news headlines […]
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