The Thracians made a keen impression on both their neighbours and the archaeological record, but how much do we really know about…
In the summer of 1911, the young Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) went on a bicycling tour around Rome and began to realise that…
Today, Gravina is one of those little-known Italian towns that every tourist falls for. Meaning ‘ravine’ in Italian, the town is aptly…
In 1996, Alastair Small and his wife Carola launched a major fieldwalking project to examine the countryside near Gravina. Focusing on the…
Questions are being asked about the cultural priorities of the Italian Government in the wake of recent structural damage to the ancient…
For years I have directed small armies of excavators through a project manager, so returning to the role of quartermaster (and co-director)…
To sail the Turkish Coast is to embark on an historical and archaeological adventure that spans over 3,000 years of history. It…
The sheer scale of Rome's German frontier is overwhelming. Running for almost 550km, and boasting at least 60 forts, 80 fortlets and…
For the Hittites of the Late Bronze Age it was a difficult, wild country where the restless Kashka people lived. For the…
In 1997 four cavers set out to explore the deepest galleries of the Grotta della Monaca. It was not an easy task.…
Sicily was best known during the Roman Republic as the breadbasket of Rome. Although she never reached such dizzy heights again (Africa…
Iron-Age people had a conscious relationship with objects from earlier times that connected them to their past, says Olle Hemdorff at the…
We live in a city-centric world. When we think of the scattered islands of the Aegean, we think of them as remote…