Archaeologists from around the world are engaged in a desperate race to save the ancient city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River in southern Turkey. Mosaics regarded by archaeologists as some of the...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, is from a contemporary US novelist who calls himself a "failed ascetic": " He speaks in your voice, American,...
Sight Unseen - Representation and Recognition in Vision
The Artificial Kingdom
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy - On Tycho's Island
Defining Features
The Man Who Invented the 20th Century
Metals and the Royal Society
Count Rumford
Continental Drift - The Rejection of Continental Drift
Everest
Susan Whitfield once worried that her 'techie' research would hinder her career. As a showcase conference opens, she asks universities to reward digital work in the arts Paper and printing,...
Historians can be reluctant to use maps - despite the availability of computer tech-niques. But in 1991, staff at Queen's University, Belfast, started converting census statistics for Ireland into...
UK academics have neglected the history of the freemasons. Andrew Prescott wants to use computers to map the spread of this very British organisation I have just started working on the history of...