The Water Diviner
For forty years I have relied on remote sensing in Italy before starting to excavate. Mostly it has worked out well. In 1978 I found...
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...
Patenting ideas at Lacock abbey
In August 1835 photography in the form of a calotypes was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot at his Wiltshire home of Lacock Abbey....
‘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...
Metal-detecting on the beach at Palm Beach
Thanks to AUR’s vivacious board member, Debra Tornaben, I was lucky enough to speak to the Palm Beach Round Table about my Travels with...
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...
'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...
