The Avebury Barber-Surgeon
I was introduced to archaeology over fifty years ago at night classes by Duncan Grant King whose main claim to archaeological fame was...
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary
It is a power lesson in museology: the monumental past forcing the visitor to reflect on the present. Close to Fairmont Park and...
The Water Diviner
For forty years I have relied on remote sensing in Italy before starting to excavate. Mostly it has worked out well. In 1978 I found...
Climate change and ‘The Fate of Rome’, today
Silvio laments the winds, the constant winds which have whipped our house and deposited extraordinary amounts of North African sand on...
Etruscan Cerveteri: learning to be part of the modern world
‘..to the tombs, to the tombs! On a sunny April morning we set out for the tombs. From Rome, the eternal city, now in a black bonnet. It...
In Memoriam – Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels are a treat. Over the past decade, having avidly read the first three from the 1990s, I have awaited...
Harry Shindler and Brexit
The indefatigable 96-year old Harry Shindler (see previous post for more about Harry) called last night. He was very excited. He has been...
Nonantola: making history
Sauro Gelichi and I organized a conference in Nonantola, near Modena, to celebrate the 6th and final monograph on his excavations of the...
Foreign museum directors in Italy
One topic always arises when I am in the company of members of the Soprintenza for Beni Culturali: should foreigners be running Italy’s...
The Uffizi of Molise
Europe has privileged the humanism of the (late medieval/early modern) Renaissance above the earlier renaissances of the Carolingian and...
