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'IT'S A VERY, VERY COMPLEX mixed kind of thing, the entire British heritage in India', the great Bengali film-maker Satyajit Ray (1921-92) told me when I interviewed him at length […]

The article discusses the discovery and archaeological excavation of ancient civilization in the Indus Valley. The author reflects on the identification of human settlements and the location of cities such as Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Emphasis is given to topics such as comparisons with ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the political aspects of archaeology in India and Central Asia, and possible climate changes in the area.

On August 17th, 1915, Archibald Primrose, Earl of 'Rosebery and a former prime minister, received an anonymous letter about the headmaster of his old school, Eton, of which he was [...]

The article looks into the life of polymath Thomas Young. Physics students knows Young as the English scientist who demonstrated that light was a wave, thus disproving Isaac Newton's conviction that it consisted of a stream of particles. But for those who studies ancient Egypt, Young was the linguist and antiquarian who decoded the two Egyptian scripts on the Rosetta Stone. Due to his accomplishments, the organizers of an exhibition at Science Museum in London, England in 1973 stated that Young was probably had a wider range of creative learning because he made discoveries in nearly every field he studied.

Focuses on the task of historians in deciphering ancient scripts. Origin of deciphering ancient script; Examples of ancient scripts that defy decipherment; Challenges faced by historians in deciphering ancient scripts.

The Code Breaker's Secret Diaries Rediscovering Ancient Egypt Jean-Francois Champollion Translated by Martin Rynja Gibson Square Books 404pp 8.99 £ ISBN 978 1903933831 Jean-Francois Champollion was the first, and to [...]

Empires of the Indus The Story of a River Alice Albinia John Murray 366pp 20.00 £ ISBN 978 0 7195 6003 3 It is Alice Albinia's sheer pluck that is [...]

Leonard Woolf A Life Victoria Glendinning Simon and Schuster 530 pp 25 £ ISBN 0 7432 2030 7 ANYONE WHO HAS HAD THE PLEASURE of reading Leonard Woolf's five-volume autobiography, [...]

EXHIBITION High Society Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture Wellcome Collection Until February 27th, 2011 183 Euston Road, London NW1 28E Telephone: 020 7611 8888 www.wellcome.ac.uk When Arthur Conan Doyle [...]

Galileo J.L. Heilbron Oxford University Press 508pp 20 £ ISBN 978 0199583522 This year, designated International Galileo Year, is the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's telescopic revelations about the solar [...]

Book Makers British Publishing in the Twentieth Century Iain Stevenson The British Library 314pp 25 £ ISBN 978 07123 09615 'The Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a frightening [...]

Lost London 1870-1945 Philip Davies English Heritage/Transatlantic Press 368pp 29.99 £ ISBN 9780955794988 A historical photograph in my local newspaper in London recently gave me a shock. It showed massive [...]

Seeing Further The Story of Science and the Royal Society Edited by Bill Bryson Harper Press 490pp 25 £ ISBN 978 0007302567 Now that the great Darwin anniversaries are behind [...]

Points of View Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs John Falconer and Louise Hide The British Library 176pp 15.95 £ ISBN 978 0712350822 'The camera never lies: But of course [...]

An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World Frances Larson Oxford University Press 335pp 18.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978 0199554461 The pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Wellcome [...]

Photographing America Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans Thames & Hudson 181pp 27.50 £ ISBN 978 0500543702 Half a century after The Decisive Moment, the book that established his reputation in [...]

Universe of Stone Chartres Cathedral and the Origins of Order Philip Ball Bodley Head 322pp 20 £ ISBN 978 0 224 07863 4 Which of us, when visiting an awe-inspiring [...]

The Phoenix St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London Leo Hollis Weidenfeld & Nicolson 390pp 20 £ ISBN 978 0 297 85077 9 The life and work [...]

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 David Edgerton Profile 270pp 18.99 £ ISBN 978 1 86197 296 5 THERE IS AN OLD SOVIET JOKE told […]

The article reviews the exhibition "Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts" at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England during 2016.

The article reviews the exhibition "Artist and Empire: Facing Britain's Imperial Past" at Tate Britain in London, England until April 10, 2016.

The article reviews the exhibition "Marks of Genius" at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, at Oxford University, through September 20, 2015.

The article reviews the film "Mr Turner" directed by Mike Leigh and starring actor Timothy Spall on the life of British artist J. M. W. Turner, as well as the exhibition "Late Turner: Painting Set Free" on display through January 25, 2015 at the Tate Gallery in London, England, which displays Turner's paintings after 1835.

A letter to the editor in response to the article "Garibaldi in London" by Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe, published in the April 2014 edition of the journal, is presented.