AUR’s Roman origins?
A great hole has suddenly opened up in AUR’s library garden. A geo-radar survey by our adjunct professor, Dr. Matteo Barone, shows it’s...
Goodbye to the Vikings
A researcher for a film company has called me about the Vikings. The company want to make a series of drama-documentaries and the genial...
Archaeologists at war
I picked up Ben Pastor’s The Road to Ithaca (Bitter Lemon Press, 2015) idly thinking it was about Ithaca (because I have a fondness for...
The First World War Fort At Mittelberg, Sexten/Sesto
Ignoring the light, drifting snow, I climbed up to the Mittelberg fortress at 1,575m. that commands the Sesto/Sexten valley and looks...
Mediterranean happiness: ‘ A Charmed Life’
Formulaic greetings launched the opening of this evocative, opulent exhibition in the British Museum about the painters, Ghika and John...
Stourhead, Wiltshire
Decline and fall, renaissances, wars, conflict pass over Italy like fleeting clouds because its global brand is a country of peerless...
Voting and the shadow of ancient Rome’s firemen
Today Italy votes. As the country faces increasing impoverishment and profound uncertainty about the future, the choices hardly give me...
