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The establishment views history as a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. If only we could dig them up, find another parchment hidden is the cloister of a Irish monastery, then the full picture of our past would come into view. It has becomes increasingly clear to me that such a quest, while…

Dear Q. Bless you for your note. Of course they rejected the application – now even M. is claiming my ‘idea’ is harming the department’s reputation. The scurrying little beetle, spending his life searching for signs of the definite and indefinite in Latin. Still, he is going to Pompeii while I sit in my broom…

The Erdstall Tunnel Shard by Dr M. James Erdstalls, the mysterious yet commonplace tunnels found throughout Europe present historians with a mystery. The most recent example, discovered in northern Bavaria, has caused us more discomfort, for in it was found a single shard of pottery. Etched on it with the fragment of a Greek word…

On the origins of ‘She Who Rests’ by Prof. L.L. Powell The recent discovery of the al-Khwarizmi ‘fragment’ has created a minor stir in the world of ancient religious studies. The description of a hitherto unknown cult, recorded by the great Islamic polymath himself, could hardly do otherwise. Yet again, history has presented us with…