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Flint knapping is a wonderfully paradoxical craft. It requires next to nothing in terms of material – just a hammerstone and a piece of flint – but takes up towards a decade of hard work to perfect. Anyone can learn to calculate the strike to take off a simple flake, but making a tool…
When Alexander the Great suddenly died in 323 BCE without a legitimate heir, the future of his massive empire was uncertain, to say the least. He had left two unborn children, an illegitimate son and a half-wit half-brother, but the real power lay with none of them. The true power was with the generals…
Along the banks of the Thames just north of London Bridge, six meters below the current street level, lie the oldest remains of infant London.
The city has changed through its two millennia of occupation, but some things have not. There are still houses in these oldest parts of London that were built on…
For as long as there has been a calendar, there have been celebrations in honour of the new calendar year. For most of us, whether our civic calendar is the Julian or the Gregorian, that date is indisputably January 1.
It wasn’t always undisputed, though. In fact, though the January 1 New Year…
