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...
The Impact of Archaeology on an English city: Sheffield Castle.
The teaching and research of archaeology in British universities has passed through a fifty-year golden age and now appears to be in full...
The Other America
Europeans see the USA through a metropolitan prism. Hollywood emphasizes its cities, its cars and its politics. But there is another...
1 May 2000: Absolutely Fabulous
Twenty years ago today, on the first of May 2000, the Butrint Foundation trustees and directors were generously invited by the Averoff...
Excavations and surveys at Butrint, Albania: Butrint 5 & 6i,ii, iii
The popular view of archaeology is that it is done and dusted on the ground, in the trench. Nothing is further from the truth. Analysing...
Olevano sul Tusciano redux
Our book is published by Viella! Edited with Alessandro Del Muro, Il santuario di San Michele ad Olevano sul Tusciano (Viella, Rome,...
Positano’s secret treasure
The Amalfi coast is breath-taking even on a day of torrential rain. Driving waves slam against the Sirens’ islands, Li Galli, crowning...
Buried No Longer
The Ephesos Museum is in the Haus der Geschichte Österreich in Vienna. Excavations over more than a century have produced wonderful...
George Soros and the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus
I first met George Soros in Tirana 20 years ago. His Open Society Foundations had little short of a holy status among young Albanians....
Odysseus and Naucicaa
Twenty five years since we crossed to begin our excavations at Butrint in Albania and had our excitement dashed by our Albanian...
