Climate change and ‘The Fate of Rome’, today
Silvio laments the winds, the constant winds which have whipped our house and deposited extraordinary amounts of North African sand on...
Nonantola: making history
Sauro Gelichi and I organized a conference in Nonantola, near Modena, to celebrate the 6th and final monograph on his excavations of the...
Archaeologists at war
I picked up Ben Pastor’s The Road to Ithaca (Bitter Lemon Press, 2015) idly thinking it was about Ithaca (because I have a fondness for...
Mediterranean happiness: ‘ A Charmed Life’
Formulaic greetings launched the opening of this evocative, opulent exhibition in the British Museum about the painters, Ghika and John...
‘The Dustbin of history’ - The Bellucci collection, Perugia
We mostly live in a monotheistic world today, quite different from ancient times. Go to an archaeology museum like the national museum in...
January in the Peloponnese
Mistra: took the highway to Sparta through snow-capped peaks. Mistra is a real World Heritage Site, gloriously rich in churches, palaces,...
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...
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...
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...
