At some point in the last few decades BC, Roman legionaries paused on the banks of the Mera River, to the north…
Is an alternate version of the Pompeii story a possibility?…
A 5th or 6th century synagogue has been discovered in the costal city of Saranda, Albania…
Two day conference focussing on the archaeology of the Levant…
Fascinating finds at west Siberian mammoth burial site…
A number of artefacts formerly held in Canada, including the body of Ramases I have been returned to Cairo…
Rick Jones, of Bradford and the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, shares his urgent views on the conservation and future of the town…
Interpreting Pompeii Many of the older studies of Pompeii seem rather dry today. Architecture, mosaics and frescoes were classified into types. Houses…
Paul Zanker’s Pompeii: public and private life (Harvard, £15.95) is another book in the same vein. The German author is an archaeology…
What is the best book to read for a basic introduction to Pompeii? Paul Wilkinson has just produced Pompeii: the last day…
The crisis in Vesuvian archaeology runs deep. Pompeii is fast degrading, with walls crumbling, frescoes erased by the sun, plaster dropping off…
Pompeii has featured in fiction many times. The first-century Roman novelist Petronius set his Satyricon in the Bay of Naples, and one…
A look at recent archaeology in Jordan with a special focus on the reconstruction of the Neolithic village of Beidha…