These plaques, so ubiquitous in museum collections, offer superlative examples of the artistic heights attained in the so-called animal style of the prehistoric Asian steppe. This study offers a detai
Renowned Classical archaeologist John Boardman here turns his attention to a rather different class of artefact - the Ordos Bronzes, a group of objects found in the borderlands of north China. Boardma
Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexand