ADRIAN J BOAS

Stripped of almost all forms of embellishment, the convent church of St Anne has been recompensed for its losses, particularly in the...

Several years ago, I obtained a dried lotus flower, and through a bit of research on the internet managed to find out how to geminate the...

A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...

A large part of the appeal of archaeology lies in the fact that one never knows what one is going to uncover. It is perhaps one of the...

Recent excavations in the city of Pompeii uncovered the skeleton of a man who appeared to have been decapitated by a large stone. He was...

“All is fair in love and war” is an aphorism attributed to the sixteenth century English wit, poet and playwright, John Lyly. Basically,...

We should be very pleased that there is gravity holding us onto the world. Gravity is essential for the existence of life on the planet,...

For those interested in the subject matter of my upcoming book The Sulphur Priest, and without giving too much away and leaving the title...

Every family has its more colourful characters. In mine there is an interesting mix of the illustrious and the dubious, among them...

I have been writing this blog on crusader related topics for two and a half years, and at no time have written less than two posts a...

Poverty as an ideal is not unique to Christian monasticism. It is found in the teachings of the Stoics such as Seneca and Epictetus and...

Of the many important contributions Ronnie Ellenblum made in crusading studies, one of the most substantial is his shattering of the old...

For three years in the 1990s I co-directed excavations at the Templar fortress Vadum Iacob (Jacob's Ford), a project initiated and...

Among the objects discovered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition to Montfort Castle in 1926 were a number of pieces of sulphur....

Recent history has shown us just how detrimental to wildlife the human presence is. In an extreme example, after the deadly nuclear...

Whenever I think of a country house, a Wodehouseian vision comes to mind, a rather grand ivy-covered Palladian or Neo-Gothic mansion with...

Two occasions driving through this village might have ended badly for me. Once, having just passed the turnoff leading to the ruins and...

The thing about castles is that no two are quite the same. T.E. Lawrence knew that when, on trying to deal with how they evolved in form...

My father once gave me a lump of bauxite that he had brought back on one of his travels. It was rust-coloured stone consisting of small...

Through the issue of abdication, the highly popular and controversial television series, The Crown, the fourth season of which recently...