Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community
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Pompeii, AD 79 – Vesuvius Explodes
Investigating the devestating eruption of Mount Versuvius that snubbed out all life in Pompeii
Pompeii Before the Romans
Was Pompeii an Etruscan planned city? Reading University’s excavations of the House of Amarantus
Pompeii, House of the Vestals
The revelations of Bradford University’s excavations of the city at the time of the Caesars, with a focus on architecture, sanitation and money
Pompeii, City of Extremes – or not
Is an alternate version of the Pompeii story a possibility?
Pompeii, Visitors Plan
Map of the ancient town
Synagogue in Saranda, Albania
A 5th or 6th century synagogue has been discovered in the costal city of Saranda, Albania
Archaeology of the Levant
Two day conference focussing on the archaeology of the Levant
Mammoths at Lugovskoe, Siberia
Fascinating finds at west Siberian mammoth burial site
Rameses I Mummy Returned to Cairo
A number of artefacts formerly held in Canada, including the body of Ramases I have been returned to Cairo
Urgent Postcard from Pompeii
Rick Jones, of Bradford and the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, shares his urgent views on the conservation and future of the town
Houses & Society in Pompeii & Herculaneum
Interpreting Pompeii Many of the older studies of Pompeii seem rather dry today. Architecture, mosaics and frescoes were classified into types. Houses were distinguished according to whether limestone, volcanic tuff or concrete was used to build them. Architecture was ‘Samnite’, ‘Hellenistic’ or ‘Roman colonial’. Frescoes were grouped into four main styles. These various types were […]
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