Category Archives: Further Afield

Some AiM members were fortunate enough to attend an extraordinarily good Hedgerley Historical Society lecture by Professor Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum. Chris is a world authority on the early development of humankind and a leading light in … Continue reading →

Atlantis: Plato’s lost continent A common element to all cultures is the desire to tell stories:  they serve as explanations and warnings, and a promise of better things to come.  One of the most familiar stories tells of an ancient … Continue reading →

Star Carr, near Scarborough, was a major archaeological site long before this August’s announcement that they had found the UK’s oldest house. Since the site’s discovery in the 1940s, there have been a series of stunning finds and many of … Continue reading →

By any standards the little known temple complex of Baalbek is world class. It was the largest religious complex ever built in the Roman world, it contains the largest single temple, the best preserved temple, the largest quarried stones used … Continue reading →

Spurred on by last week’s announcement of the new henge at Stonehenge, I was encouraged to finish this article that I have been working on for some time. I know that people are saying that the new “Ghosthenge” is the … Continue reading →

Those of us who have read about the bathhouses of the mighty Roman Empire will know that they didn’t use soap – but rather rubbed oil into their skins and scraped it off with a strigil to keep clean. And … Continue reading →

My summer travels have included visits to three major archaeological sites which have all been awarded World Heritage listing. A trip to the Orkneys gave me the opportunity to visit Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar. Skara Brae was … Continue reading →

Two skeletons from Cladh Hallan, on South Uist in the Western Isles Scotland, seem to have been deliberately mummified – and one was only buried an estimated five hundred years after he died, both of the skeletons provide evidence of … Continue reading →