Yet Another Blog

Welcome to Under The Sands. The purpose of this blog is to make a record of the recent developments in history and archaeology. History has always been an interest of mine and though I'm not yet an historian, I do study the subject. When I first started blogging my original intention was to write about politics and history. However, the blog I created to do this very quickly became a political blog and I have no intention of changing that. It seems only natural to create a separate blog just for history related news.

Because I have saved numerous links to news reports about history and archaeology, the first few posts will be putting these links here for future reference (and to clear them from my bookmarks). Later I hope to do some more substantial writing as time allows, but like all blogs I expect this one to evolve from humble beginnings. I may from time to time rework some of the better essays I've written for my university studies (not current courses obviously) and post them on here as some of them are quite good.

I think that history and politics are inextricably linked so the political will inevitably intrude from time to time but I'll try to keep this to a minimum. I expect that posting will be haphazard to start with because of other commitments and the irregularity of history related news coming to my attention. As time goes on I'll add links to other history related websites and blogs which should make this site act as a gateway for further information. I look forward to reading comments from readers, particularly if they are better informed than I am, and maybe having some interesting debates.