Issue 45/Features/Italy Life and Death at Vagnari Throughout most of Italy, the 2nd and 1st centuries BC were a time of increasing prosperity. Towns sprang up and flourished, while…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Metapontum and Tarentum The fate of the inland cities of Southern Italy depended to a considerable extent on the fortunes of the Greek colonies springing…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Venusia’s supersize colony The Samnites were hardy folk. Living in a region dominated by the Apennine mountains to the southeast of Rome, they proved reluctant…
Issue 45/Features/Italy Down to Today The convulsions in land use that usher in the post-Roman period are vividly laid bare by the Vagnari survey. In the 4th…
Issue 45/Features/USA United States: The World Trade Center ship Not long after sunrise on 13 July 2010, two archaeologists descended a long aluminium ladder into a 25-ft deep pit immediately south…
Issue 45/Features/Norway Norway Oseberg ladies In August 1903 Gabriel Gustafson, director of the University Museum of Antiquities in Kristiana (now Oslo), received an unexpected visitor. The caller,…
Issue 45/Travel/Turkey Travelling Turkey To sail the Turkish Coast is to embark on an historical and archaeological adventure that spans over 3,000 years of history. It…