If I had lived in Victorian London, I like to think this is where you might have found me… Somewhere between cabinets of minerals, piles of old books, geological maps and botanical drawings. So I created Mrs M. E. Lytham — my fictional Victorian alter ego, collector of minerals and student of

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Stibnite has long been associated - though not securely proven - with the kohl of ancient Egypt. Analyses of surviving Egyptian cosmetic samples have mainly identified galena and other lead-based minerals rather than stibnite. During the 1st century CE, Dioscorides (a Greek physician) and Pliny

The Natural History Museum 🏛️ is one of my go-to places in London, and today I decided to dedicate my visit entirely to the Earth’s Treasury gallery - home to minerals, gemstones and curiosities from around the world. Of course, one afternoon was not enough, and I’ll be back soon. But until then

Today, 12 August 2026, a solar eclipse crosses the North Atlantic — visible here in London, UK, as a partial eclipse. I wanted to mark the occasion by publishing in my very own Lithos London style: I looked through old astronomical archives, historical notes, museum records and even NASA photogr

To answer the question… nobody really knows until they crack one open. From the outside, an agate can give very little indication of what has been forming within. Once cut, however, bands of chalcedony, changes in colour, crystalline formations and sometimes small natural cavities are revealed.

Old keys, magnifying glasses, scientific instruments, glass domes and, of course, minerals — little objects I have been collecting to create the visual world of Lithos London. Still growing, one curiosity at a time, I always get excited with every new discovery of an item, with every new additio