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Howard Carter: Famous Archaeologist, Not-So-Famous Painter
It isn’t often that we hear anything about English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter other than this groundbreaking discovery...
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True - he worked under Flinders Petrie, where he gained most of his archaeological training, but was employed as a tracer, thanks to his draughtsmanship, learnt from his father. His first tasks were...
Suspense has ended for the excavators in Egypt and the watchers in the two hemispheres.
Never before has the civilised world followed, or been able as now to follow, step by step, immediately upon...
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Some years ago I was doing some family history research and was going through reels and reels of microfiche copies of our local newspaper in the city library and right next to the article I was...
Posters probably know about the Internet Archive and its collection of out of copyright books, music and ephemera available for download.
For those who don’t, here is a very small sample of the...
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Thanks for posting Hafiz, as you say it is a huge resource site and I agree it is a bit difficult to navigate, although maybe spending more time there would help. Dowloading a book with text and...
For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can...
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He modified his speech during his first America lecture tour. Many said he was hard to understand. Not just his English accent, but his dramatic style, which was reflected in his journal writing.
