Spoleto - a tutorial with John Mitchell
John Mitchell is here hot-foot from a conference of Lombard archaeology, art and history at Benevento. Thirty six years since we first...
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...
The olive press at Muro Leccese, Apulia
Of all the archaeological discoveries I’ve chanced to see in recent years, up there with the best is to be found on the walls of a late...
Fall 2017
Last night rain arrived, the first non-tempestuous rain in six months. Just to hear it drumming on the windows was a reassuring sound,...
In Memory of Klavs
I am flying back from the memorial conference to Klavs Randsborg – Crossroads Archaeology - held in Copenhagen. It was a deeply...
Vetricella 8th week
Dust blows everywhere, it has been an exceptionally dry October. This makes the digging at Vetricella for our nEU-Med project harder but...
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...
Matera Imagined
Matera is one of the most magical places in Italy. The cave dwellings with their vestiges of troglodyte living appear to belong to...
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...
