Metal-detecting on the beach at Palm Beach
Thanks to AUR’s vivacious board member, Debra Tornaben, I was lucky enough to speak to the Palm Beach Round Table about my Travels with...
A Thanksgiving Trip: Rome’s San Clemente
The American University of Rome mounted a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. Over 120 came from as far away as Sacramento. The atmosphere was...
Wintry thoughts on pictorial reconstruction in archaeology
Looking out of my office window I can spy the first snow on the mountains. Few urban views anywhere, I like to believe, are as authentic...
In Memory of Klavs
I am flying back from the memorial conference to Klavs Randsborg – Crossroads Archaeology - held in Copenhagen. It was a deeply...
Longwood Gardens
Created by Pierre du Pont, the Wilmington mogul of the earlier 20th century, Longwood Gardens take your senses by storm. More than a...
Germantown revelry
There are two Americas. There’s the 24-hour news cycle and then there is the quotidian energy of the country. I never watch television,...
'Travels with an Archaeologist' lecture at Penn Museum. 17 October 2017
Prior to becoming President of The American University of Rome I was the Williams Director of Penn Museum and it gives me great pleasure...
Bunga Bunga and Dan Brown?
Bunga bunga sells. With some American strategic thinking in the extraordinary case of the Unesco World Heritage Site of Tarquinia, it...
Hurricane Xavier
Berlin had its own hurricane, christened Xavier, and with it all public transport temporarily ceased. The waters around Museum Island...
A (West) Baltic Sea treasure trove
I was fortunate to hear Unn Pedersen’s lecture on the Viking port of Kaupang at the Norwegian Institute (just up the road from The...
