Rome’s military is renowned as one of the finest fighting forces of the ancient world. But what was life really like for…
Pompeii has featured in fiction many times. The first-century Roman novelist Petronius set his Satyricon in the Bay of Naples, and one…
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…
Exclusive report on the effects of the devestating 26.12.2003 earthquake on the historical remains of Bam, Iran…
Excavations in the Unbelievers City at Merv have revealed a workers' quarter and evidence for steel making in the 9th century AD…
A look at recent archaeology in Jordan with a special focus on the reconstruction of the Neolithic village of Beidha…
The archaeology of a Roman technological revolution: the cheiroballistra…
A royal fort in the Hindu Kush, and its seige in 1895: Bill Woodburn and Neil Faulkner report…
A note for budding archaeologists! The Schools Committee of the Roman Society and the Roman Research Trust have teamed up to offer…
A major new museum has been planned for Giza, Egypt…