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For a far flung part of the ancient empire, Britain is fortunate to have many Roman remains….

Lieutenant general Thomas Picton was apparently, to put it mildly, not a very nice person. Even by…

On a trip to the excellent Avoncroft outdoor museum, near Bromsgrove in western England, I came across…

Sometimes it seems that modern sculptures based on the ancient Greek style are ubiquitous. So it’s not…

The Nereid Monument is an ancient tomb from what is now south-west Turkey. According to Wikipedia it…

Born in 470 BC, Sokrates (a.k.a. Socrates) was a Greek philosopher who is credited as founding Western…

This is a basic 3D scan of one of the north frieze Parthenon Marbles at the British…

This is a basic 3D scan of one of the west frieze Parthenon Marbles at the British…

Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greek king who came to his throne in 336 BC,…

There are a number of gargoyles (according to Wikipedia, a carved grotesque form intended to route water…