Tag / Aurel Stein
Prof. Luca M. Olivieri Lecture
Temples of Swat. The Shahi archaeological landscape. The talk will report on the recent research at Barikot, Swat, Pakistan, where excavations continued also in 2020. The ancient urban site, known in Greek…
27 May 2021New research on Sir Aurel Stein
Yesterday evening, 4 October 2018, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE, “‘My Dear Schomberg’: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein”. Highlighting a hitherto unstudied collection of…
5 October 2018Happy Birthday Sir William Jones
William Jones was born on this day, 28 September, in 1746. His father, also William Jones, was a mathematician from Anglesey, but living in Westminster when his son was born. Unfortunately William…
28 September 2018More Printing Paraphernalia from Miscellaneous Box M
Discovering the identity of glass slides was the tiny cliffhanger on which I left the last blog post. The other two glass plates in the box also turn out to be images for…
25 August 2017Working with the Stein Collection and end of placement
We are grateful to Carly Bishop, MA University of Sussex placement student, for her time spent with our photograph collections, and for writing the blog this week: As I come to the…
20 July 2017