Forensics
Time for the modern ‘Monuments Men’ as Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery is destroyed?
The news that the 1,400 year-old St Elijah’s Monastery, Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, has been completely destroyed by the self-styled Islamic State has once again caused shock-waves throughout the world. Satellite images show the site, ...
Unearthing Britain’s Pompeii in Must Farm: was it arson?
This month archaeologists discovered Britain’s Pompeii in Cambridgeshire. It is thought that a fire destroyed the wooden houses which may have formed part of a settlement at Must Farm quarry and which date back to ...