During lockdown archaeologists were not idle: one of them, look, was digging in his own garden and turned up Neolithic arrowheads and Roman pottery

During lockdown archaeologists were not idle: one of them, look, was digging in his own garden and turned up Neolithic arrowheads and Roman pottery. I had less luck with finds, though once I did come across a genuine Stone Age tool, but otherwise it was nineteenth-century coins and some cast-iron shards(

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

During lockdown archaeologists were not idle: one of them, look, was digging in his own garden and turned up Neolithic arrowheads and Roman pottery

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s