Category Archive: Archaeology/History

“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. In … Read More

The BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria is the latest in an occasional series of British Museum exhibitions based on the lives of individual … Read More

Apparently, it’s December already. There are no more Peter Sommer tours or cruises to worry about this year (but more than ever in 2019), my fireplace has already been in … Read More

Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. What … Read More

It’s been three years since I I last posted on the Perils of Online Site Reviews, and more than four since I did so for the first time. In those days, … Read More

Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours (and … Read More

(All images in this post, unless otherwise indicated, are from the Greek Ministry of Culture’s official press release and thus image rights are © ΕΦΑ ΚΥΚΛΑΔΩΝ / Archaeological Eforeia of the … Read More

“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. There’s … Read More

“Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours.   … Read More

The title of this post is somewhat ironic. I’ll explain why at the end. We like to show our guests important ancient sites they would not find, or find difficult … Read More

Last week, our three trusted local experts in Greece and three of our core staff concluded an intense week-long recce or reconnoitre in the Dodecanese Islands, in preparation for our … Read More

Last week, Peter Sommer, Michael Metcalfe and myself visited the Acropolis Museum’s current temporary exhibition: Eleusis – the Great Mysteries. The exhibit, open until the end of May (unless it … Read More

This article was first published in ‘The American‘. We are grateful once again for the opportunity to repost it here. There’s not one Wessex, familiar though the name is, but … Read More

“Mystery” is a problematic term in archaeology, and often linked to the fringes of discourse. For my thoughts on this important caveat, please read the introduction to the first post … Read More

This article was first published in ‘The American‘. We are grateful for the opportunity to repost it here. Stand somewhere on the mid-section of Hadrian’s Wall and look out at … Read More