This blog will share information about the major new field project at the Roman fort of Binchester (Co. Durham), run jointly by Durham County Council, the Dept. of Archaeology, Durham University and Dept. of Classics, Stanford University and the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland. It will communicate news, events, and once the field season starts a daily update of the discoveries on site. To find out more visit our website
The Boy Orestes
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Late antiquity has not been especially well-served by the novelist. I have
a fondness for Manfredi's The Last Legion, despite the film and the
dreadful Eng...
Jack in the Green, Iffley
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Just wanted to share this splendid picture of the Jack in the Green
ceremony at Iffley, Oxford. Photograph taken from the excellent Oxfordshire
History Ce...
More Silly Humanities Idealism
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Yet another case of that silly and damaging humanities idealism.
Last month the *Daily Beast* listed archaeology among the thirteen most
useless major su...
Watching a Roman Play in a Virtual Rome
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Today inside the online world of Second Life, a group of virtual Romans
watched a play about *Ceres and Persephone*. It was written and performed
by memb...
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