In Memory of Klavs
I am flying back from the memorial conference to Klavs Randsborg – Crossroads Archaeology - held in Copenhagen. It was a deeply...
Vetricella 8th week
Dust blows everywhere, it has been an exceptionally dry October. This makes the digging at Vetricella for our nEU-Med project harder but...
Longwood Gardens
Created by Pierre du Pont, the Wilmington mogul of the earlier 20th century, Longwood Gardens take your senses by storm. More than a...
Matera Imagined
Matera is one of the most magical places in Italy. The cave dwellings with their vestiges of troglodyte living appear to belong to...
Germantown revelry
There are two Americas. There’s the 24-hour news cycle and then there is the quotidian energy of the country. I never watch television,...
'Travels with an Archaeologist' lecture at Penn Museum. 17 October 2017
Prior to becoming President of The American University of Rome I was the Williams Director of Penn Museum and it gives me great pleasure...
Vetricella Week 6: The Egyptian Connection
The excavations at Vetricella (part of nEU-Med) are now in their sixth week. The site history is coming alive with each passing week....
Bunga Bunga and Dan Brown?
Bunga bunga sells. With some American strategic thinking in the extraordinary case of the Unesco World Heritage Site of Tarquinia, it...
Hurricane Xavier
Berlin had its own hurricane, christened Xavier, and with it all public transport temporarily ceased. The waters around Museum Island...
Festschrift
Twenty years ago an Albanian friend and I were two of the three passengers on a ferry – an old tub called the Kaliopi – leaving Saranda...
