The Gorham Stevens Plaster Model of the Athenian Acropolis

It’s a curious and intriguing thought that at the height of World War II, the architect Gorham P. Stevens, then in residence as acting director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, busied himself with designing and making a plaster model of the Athenian Acropolis as it would have appeared in the first […]

Bathing Culture in the Near East

Hypocaust in the late 4th-early 5th century Western Bathhouse at Scythopolis (Baysan / Beit She’an), Israel. Photo: TMK, June 2009. Here’s a pretty cool French blog on Near Eastern bathing culture from antiquity to today: Balneorient, run by a research project with the same title. Its latest post reports on the discovery of a 5th […]

Archaeological Engagements: New Media and Beyond

European Journal of Archaeology volume 10.1 has just appeared online. It includes a special reviews section, ‘Archaeological Engagements: New Media and Beyond’, edited by yours truly. The seven contributions that make up this section all explore the engagement of archaeology in new media and a number of contemporary cultural phenomena such as computer games and […]