Where can you find out more about the UNESCO Astronomy World Heritage...
For anyone searching for my name today, here’s the information you’re after. The bit I’m working with is the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy. This is the part where all the public information is....
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Mick Aston
Mick Aston was probably the best-known archaeologist in the UK. I’d also go so far as to say that he was the most influential archaeologist of the last 25 years. Mick Aston (centre). Photo by Wessex...
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How did being buried for 36 hours become three days?
Something that puzzled me about the resurrection was how a period of thirty-six hours or so became three days. There are other things too, but the period from death to Easter morning isn’t even...
View ArticleSilencing the Echo
The black clouds unleashed their rain, pelting Adlais’s face. The drops melted into her tears. Now, in the centre of the circle, the priests gripping her, she understood what happened to her friend...
View ArticleThe uncommonly decent politics of reburial
To add a little context to the previous post: I’ve taken a course in short story writing, and Silencing the Echo might have been an entry for a short story competition in Wales — but I decided against...
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The ancients and meteors
There are all sorts of cyclical events that ancient peoples are thought to be interested in, solstices, lunar cycles and eclipses. What rarely seems to get attention are meteor showers. It might seem...
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The opposite of Open Access
Here’s an interesting paper I found while looking for information on a topic: EVALUATING THE STATUS OF UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN EGYPT. I’ve no idea if the content is interesting. However, the...
View ArticleTentative Astronomical World Heritage Sites
I’m making a note for myself here, but other might be interested. It’s occurred to me there’s a very easy way to list sites on the tentative world heritage lists with an explicit astronomical...
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Does history feel better when it has no connection to the past?
The BBC’s Stargazing LIVE recently showed how you could predict eclipses using Stonehenge. It’s true but also really boring because there’s next to no evidence for it. How convincing it is depends on...
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I clearly don’t understand what an academic review is for
There’s a bit of a puzzle in American Antiquity recently, a section of reviews of pseudoarchaeology books and after reading it, the biggest mystery is why? Donald H. Holly Jr is worried that people are...
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