ADRIAN J BOAS

I have often tried to get my head around the idea of what it must have been like for those thousands of uneducated and unsophisticated...

Excuse me for the somewhat gruesome nature of this post. In spite of all the many advances that science has made, we have yet to resolve...

I recall a picture book that I particularly enjoyed as a child. Hit and Myth was one of those books with large illustrations of different...

A curious child (perhaps in more ways than one), I often got into places that I was not meant to get into, and saw things that were not...

The Age of Plastic is hopefully, beginning its decline. We cannot expect that it will quietly slip into its grave; plastics have been...

Among a few photographs of family members I have on my desk is one of two half-brothers of my paternal grandmother; Louis and Douglas...

When I was about 10 years old, perhaps a little older, my father would on occasionally wake my brothers and sister and I in the middle of...

One of my delights as a child was exploring abandoned houses. There seem to have been a great many in the neighbourhoods I grew up in, at...

There are literally hundreds of legends that have grown up around the crusades. One is the tragic tale of Jaufre Rudel, a troubadour from...

Over the last month, a series of mild earthquakes have taken place in Israel, centring on the region of the Sea of Galilee. Damage has...

Are historians and archaeologists more nostalgic than people in other professions? Does a professional interest in the past correlate to...

The air-conditioner in my study appears to be leaking gas, and having turned it off I find myself slumping over my laptop in a damp shirt...

Like so many others, I am drawn to Italy and to things Italian. Coffee for one. Why is it that, using precisely the same ingredients,...

This is not an argument against vegetarians and vegans, but who is to say that plants don't have feelings. The popular 1970s bestseller,...