Return of the Pharaoh is the latest Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer, otherwise known as a Hollywood director (including two Star Trek movies) and writer. I greatly enjoyed the first two novels, The Seven Percent Solution (1974) and The…
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Anundshög
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Medieval Week 2019
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Tutankhamun in Paris
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The National Museum of Kenya – a Mecca for Archaeologists
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The King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza
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Gudings slott
In mid-July I finally had an opportunity to take part in an archaeological excavation. I spent four days on a dig by the Gotland Archaeological Field School at a place called Gudings slott, near Eke in southeastern Gotland.
Butehamun in the journal KMT
I am delighted that my article about Butehamun (spelled “Butehamen” in accordance with their style guide) has been published in the respected popular Egyptology magazine “Kmt”. This is particularly gratifying because the journal had close links with the late Dr.…
Gallery: Medieval Week in Visby
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The world’s least interesting national day
National Day 2011 at Millesgården, Lidingö, Today is Sweden’s National Day, and practically no one cares. Under the headline “National Day, a bluff clothed in Blue and Yellow”, the noted historian Dick Harrison tells the newspaper “Svenska Dagbladet” today that…