Our most beautiful cover yet? We believe that you can judge a magazine by its cover!

 

                 Find out more in our stunning Winter 2020/21 issue, our first quarterly magazine, which will be published in early November.

                 

             As always we have wonderful, thought provoking and exciting features from

world-renowned contributors. Some highlights in the next issue:

 

​ A fascinating interview, by Murray Eiland, of Richard Gombrich, an eminent scholar

of Buddhism, Pāli, and Sanskrit, in ‘What the Buddha Said’;

 

Award-winning photographer Mark Ferguson captures, through breath-taking photographs, the wonders of prehistoric and medieval sites on Orkney

in ‘Dancing with the Moonlit Night’;

 

Saïd Nuseibeh presents a compelling study of the architecture of the

Musalla al-Marwani mosque in Jerusalem;

 

A tribute, by Mark Merrony our Editor in Chief, to the late Judith Mckenzie and the extraordinary Manor al-Athar photographic Archive in ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’;

 

Female empowerment is mooted, by Michael Goodyear,  as the power that often lay behind the throne in late antiquity in ‘Imperial Women at the Twilight of the Roman Empire’;

 

A beautiful visual journey through the minor arts, ‘Personalising your Letter: Roman Gems in Britain’ from Martin Henig, foremost specialist in Roman art and religion;

 

Daphne Nash Briggs, expert numismatist, formerly of the Ashmolean Museum,

looks at ‘Iron Age coins, Kings and Coins in Southern Britain before Claudius’;

 

Fascinating news relating to ancient art, archaeology, and history from our news correspondent Sofia Carreira-Wham;

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