Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
Map of the ancient town…
Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community…
Investigating the devestating eruption of Mount Versuvius that snubbed out all life in Pompeii…
Was Pompeii an Etruscan planned city? Reading University's excavations of the House of Amarantus…
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…