Interpretations of Kilmartin Glen by various archaeologists and antiquarians all agree it is one of Britain's greatest treasures. Yet the strangest thing is that most people have never heard of it.
The area has been searched for the past 150 years, first by Victorian antiquarians, later by archaeologists. Yet none of them had the slightest idea what lay beneath their feet. Stand at “the ...
A few antiquarians in the 1700s and 1800s had claimed as much, but they had said little to help later scholars identify the sources. While a spring named "Matrice" exists today, it has clearly ...
The Latin tag abi tu, et fac similiter—go, thou, and do likewise—was widely encountered in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is ...
The Neolithic site at Holm, East Mainland, was largely destroyed by Victorian antiquarians 127 years ago. Experts from National Museums Scotland (NMS) and Cardiff University rediscovered the tomb ...
Booksellers gathered in Pasadena for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Fall Fest 2024, September 17–18. Of ...
The central spire was rebuilt, but the long open space Wyatt created inside the building angered antiquarians. From 1842, ...
As I visited Nice in the summer, I realized firsthand why people call it the city for lovers, escapists, and thinkers, and ...
Little did he know that centuries later, European antiquarians would describe his remarkably durable Eastern Roman Empire using that old Greek name: “Byzantine.” Describing the so-called Holy Roman ...