Croatia/Issue 89/Travel Travel: Vela Spila The millennia-long story of a Croatian cave Magnificent Vela Spila overlooks the town of Vela Luka, which spreads around an L-shaped bay…
Issue 89/Italy/Rome/Travel Travel: Ancient Rome’s first responders Richard Hodges investigates pestilence and climate chaos in the eternal city The trams rumbling along the Viale Trastevere wake me. The bell…
Issue 88/Travel Travel: Istanbul Lucia Marchini explores sacred sites in the sultan’s city. The year AD 532 was an eventful one in the history of Constantinople,…
Greece/Issue 88/Travel Richard Hodges travels to the Peloponnese Seeking a Byzantine rebirth All Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or stream without a battle or a…
Features/Issue 88/Malta Excavating a Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Gozo, Malta The Phoenicians occupied the coast of the Levant for over 1,000 years, but knowledge of their trade network and practices remains elusive.…
Crete/Cyprus/Features/Greece/Italy/Jordan Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy In 1640, a bronze tablet was discovered during construction work on a palace in Tiriolo, southern Italy. Dating from 186 BC, it…
China/Features/Issue 88 Army of the dead Around 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors and horses were created in battle formation to protect the burial place of China’s first emperor. But…