Archaeology

In legend, Marathon is one of the decisive battles of the world; in fact, Stuart E.P. Atherley suggests, it marked the repulse of a comparatively small “colonial” expedition from Persia.

Charles Seltman

Charles Seltman helps explain the mysteries of the Diopet.

C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Charles Seltman visits the Holiest Place of the Greeks. Part I of a two part series. Second part can be read here.

Mark Ronan describes new efforts  at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to decode the world’s oldest undeciphered language.

Geoffrey Grigson explores how a variety of views of Stonehenge has surfaced, and re-surfaced, in popular literature over time.

A great hoax was born on December 18th, 1912.

Sir Julian Huxley examines the debates and mysteries that surround humanity's earliest moves towards mass society.