Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean
These large excavations encompass the acropolis, the forum, the Triconch Palace and the Western Defenses besides a major investigation of Butrint’s suburb. Drawing on original excavation reports, this book gives an overview of a place over millennia that was at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and now is Albania’s premier tourist destination.
Colin Renfrew (1937-2024)
Colin Renfrew, who has died aged 87, was a great friend to The American University of Rome, having given masterclasses in the university...
La Pompei del Medioevo
My new book about the excavations at San Vincenzo al Volturno, Molise has been published by Carocci (of Rome). The publisher has done a...
Lea Ypi, Free. A child and a country at the end of history
This is a marvelous almost magical book about growing up in Albania. It encompasses just over a decade under communism, then her teenage...
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and Albania
John Sainsbury, who passed away on 14 January, aged 94, is remembered for his business acumen, but he also had an avid interest in...
Kosta Lako (1949-2021): placemaker of Saranda (ancient Onchesmus/Onhezm)
Kosta Lako was one of the outstanding Albanian archaeologists of his generation. Born in the coastal port of Saranda in December 1949, he...
Prince Philip and the British School at Rome
I only encountered the Duke of Edinburgh once. In October 1980 he visited the British School at Rome in his capacity as President of the...
EXCAVATING BUTRINT IN LOCKDOWN: BUTRINT 7 PUBLISHED
Lockdown has had its silver lining: working remotely with David Hernandez in South Bend, Indiana, Butrint 7 – a complicated volume...
Fifty Years of Archaeologists putting the Great into Britain
The UK government, struggling with Brexit and the pandemic, have reacted by ear-marking treasury cuts in a practice Britain does best:...
Netflix’s The Dig
The very thought of this new film thrilled me, and I wasn’t disappointed. The story of the discovery and excavation in 1939 of the...
