Investigating the devestating eruption of Mount Versuvius that snubbed out all life in Pompeii…
Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community…
A number of artefacts formerly held in Canada, including the body of Ramases I have been returned to Cairo…
Fascinating finds at west Siberian mammoth burial site…
Two day conference focussing on the archaeology of the Levant…
A 5th or 6th century synagogue has been discovered in the costal city of Saranda, Albania…
Rick Jones, of Bradford and the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, shares his urgent views on the conservation and future of the town…
Pompeii has featured in fiction many times. The first-century Roman novelist Petronius set his Satyricon in the Bay of Naples, and one…
The crisis in Vesuvian archaeology runs deep. Pompeii is fast degrading, with walls crumbling, frescoes erased by the sun, plaster dropping off…
What is the best book to read for a basic introduction to Pompeii? Paul Wilkinson has just produced Pompeii: the last day…
Paul Zanker’s Pompeii: public and private life (Harvard, £15.95) is another book in the same vein. The German author is an archaeology…
Interpreting Pompeii Many of the older studies of Pompeii seem rather dry today. Architecture, mosaics and frescoes were classified into types. Houses…