We've all seen the Assyrian wall panels on the lower floor of the British Museum, while bustling past on the way to something else. And if we're honest, they...

Roman sites in the UK, not having benefitted from 2,000 years of lava preservation, do need a little help to bring them to life. The London Mithraeum under B...

A visiting friend wanted to see the famous local doom today, a piece I've always found intriguing but unsettling as I don't like to think of the systematic t...

I came across this fascinating piece of needlework today at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, part of the Norfolk Museums, while out researching something unre...

Here's a news story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44779492?SThisFB about a newly uncovered Homeric inscription that is going excite Classicists eve...

Radio broadcasts can have no place in a picture research blog but the last in this season's In Our Time was about William Morris. Worth a listen. Very little...

I'm wondering whether it took the stonemasons of the 1st century BCE less time to carve the frieze on the Basilica Aemilia Massimo than it is taking to locat...