Tag: Archaeology Records and researchIt’s a long, long way to Amphipolis: Archaeology in Macedonia (part 2)Friday 14 June 2019The first part of this blog covered the initial search for records relating to...Records and researchIt’s a long, long way to Amphipolis: Archaeology in Macedonia (part 1)Tuesday 11 June 2019In 2014, during an excavation of the ancient Macedonian tomb near Amphipolis in northern Greece,...Records and researchThe Cairo Museum that never wasFriday 26 April 2019Very few things are actually better than the opening of a new archaeological museum....Records and researchArchaeology and the Second World War in IraqFriday 1 March 2019A new law on antiquities was approved in Iraq in 1936. Drafted by Sati...Records and research‘Fighting like angry sheep’: Wendell Phillips in the GulfTuesday 29 May 2018Wendell Philipps has often been described by the press as ‘America’s Lawrence of Arabia’,...Records and researchArchaeological business as usual? Digging in the Hatay in the 1930sFriday 2 February 2018After the First World War, the League of Nations granted France a Mandate on...Records and researchAnglo-French archaeological squabbles in AfghanistanFriday 13 October 2017In Afghanistan, just like elsewhere in the world, the British and the French squabbled...Records and researchThe other battle of SamarraFriday 18 August 2017In April 1917 the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force captured Samarra. The authorities made a discovery...Records and researchDecolonising archaeology in Iraq?Tuesday 27 June 2017The ‘Arpachiyah Scandal’, involving Agatha Christie’s husband Max Mallowan, was a first step in...Records and researchAntiquity versus modernity? Philae and the Aswan DamWednesday 8 February 2017The rescue of the temples of Philae in the 1970s is fairly well documented,...Records and researchThe beginnings of the Iraq MuseumTuesday 15 November 2016A new museum has opened in Basra - this took me back to the...Records and researchThe Nefertiti affair: the history of a repatriation debateFriday 16 September 2016Anglo-French rivalry, Germanophobia, two world wars and a flawless artefact. This is the background... 1 2 »