This monograph took me right back to my Los Angeles years and friendships there with architects and architectural historians. California...

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...

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...

A visiting friend wanted to see the famous local doom today, a piece I find intriguing but unsettling. I don't like to think of past...

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

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

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...

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...