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Wednesday, 21 October 2026
An Ancient Mediterranean Tour: Not just a Load of Old Stones
Gillian Hovell

A tour of the Mediterranean is a visit into the past; this virtual tour of the Ancient Mediterranean will share who the various ancient civilisations were and how they fit together into a ‘big
picture’. Discover how you can you identify whose art or architecture are whose and why their lives and cultures prompted them to create such features. Find out what to expect from sites and how to find the special details that thrill archaeologists.


Wednesday, 18 November 2026
The Shock of the old - Discovering Britain’s Ice Age art..
Paul Bahn

An account of the search for, and discovery of, Britain’s first Ice Age cave art at Creswell Crags (Nottinghamshire/ Derbyshire) in 2003 - “how my 30-year dream was fulfilled in a single morning!" The engravings and bas-reliefs discovered have been dated to around 13,000 years ago, and are thus by far the oldest known artistic depictions in the country.

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