Gertrude Bell with Sir Percy Cox and Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia. Basra, April 1916. (Gertrude Bell Archive/Newcastle University) On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British ...
George Osbourne has just announced that government departments have to find £3 billion in savings over the next year. The Department of Communities and Local Government will have a reduction of £230 ...
The British Museum will open its first ever show about underwater archaeology with “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds,” opening next May. The show features Egypt’s first major antiquities loans since ...
AMONG the numerous papers on British archæology read before Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association at the recent Bristol meeting, two are of special interest. (1) Mr. C. W. Phillips, in ...