A Thanksgiving Trip: Rome’s San Clemente
The American University of Rome mounted a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. Over 120 came from as far away as Sacramento. The atmosphere was...
Spoleto - a tutorial with John Mitchell
John Mitchell is here hot-foot from a conference of Lombard archaeology, art and history at Benevento. Thirty six years since we first...
Wintry thoughts on pictorial reconstruction in archaeology
Looking out of my office window I can spy the first snow on the mountains. Few urban views anywhere, I like to believe, are as authentic...
The olive press at Muro Leccese, Apulia
Of all the archaeological discoveries I’ve chanced to see in recent years, up there with the best is to be found on the walls of a late...
Fall 2017
Last night rain arrived, the first non-tempestuous rain in six months. Just to hear it drumming on the windows was a reassuring sound,...