Other articles
This is a collection of articles on various archaeological subjects, which may or may not have appeared in our magazines in the past.
| Stopping the Gift of the Nile Gamel Abdel Nasser was a disaster for Egypt - war, dictatorship, anti-Westernism, and worst of all, the Aswan High Dam! | Misspelling Punished Perhaps they'll punish people for misspelling English in a thousand years or so. | |
| Below the Nea Church Building rubble is not very interesting, but in Jerusalem it may conceal a fascinating secret. | Ritual Chequers Do you decorate your home every year - new wall paper, paint and curtains? How about leaving it for 5,000 years? | |
| The Secrets of Greek Paint We now know that Greek statues were highly coloured - but what paints did the Greeks use? | The Talheim Massacre Rousseau and Waldo Emerson described with nostalgia the "noble savage", forgetting that savages can be savage! | |
| Clever Apes Were our ancestors really only one step removed from the apes? Not if artistic expression is anything to go by! | Colour Matching Have you ever tried to find the exact shade of green? The artists of ancient Italy had the same problem. | |
| A Modern "Ship of Punt" Thor Heyerdahl had his "Kon-Tiki" and "Ra", but Cheryl Ward has "Min of the Desert". Faster and more streamlined than both - especially when on the back of a truck! | The Camels are Coming According to critics, the Bible was wrong because the camels were half a millennium too late - but was the Bible right all along? |
