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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Jul 06, 2023Thanks to cutting-edge tools, archaeologists can study the lives of past people in ways that were never before possible. Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury applies those tools to children and mothers...
The Last Kings of Rome and the Foundation of the Roman Republic
Jun 29, 2023What really happened in the last years of the 6th century BC? The Romans believed that this was the time when they overthrew their last king, Tarquinius Superbus, and founded the Republic, but how muc...
The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
Jun 22, 2023The Hallstatt Culture defines the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in Continental Europe. It was a time of long-distance connections between rich and powerful elites, migration,...
Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts
Jun 15, 2023While the Mediterranean world was experiencing its Bronze Age Collapse and the beginnings of the Iron Age, continental Europe north of the Alps was in the midst of its own fundamental transformation. ...
The Urbanization of Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Francesca Fulminante
Jun 08, 2023How and why did so many people come to Rome in the Archaic Period, and how did it become a city? Dr. Francesca Fulminante is an expert on the archaeology of ancient Italy, particularly the process of ...
The Orientalizing Mediterranean
Jun 01, 2023Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the most recognizable of which was a particular style of art that we call "Orientalizing." But this distinc...
Iron Age Iberia and the Lost Civilization of the Tartessians
May 25, 2023Iberia is the hinge between worlds: Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. That was never more true than at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, when a new civi...
Building Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Andrea Brock
May 18, 2023What was Rome like before it became one of the biggest cities in the ancient world? How did its early inhabitants adapt to the threat of flooding, and change the landscape to suit their needs? Dr. And...
The Birth of Rome
May 11, 2023Rome eventually became the heart of one of the largest and most powerful empires the world has ever known, but in the beginning, it was just a collection of villages on the Tiber River. How those vill...
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean: Interview with Professor Peter van Dommelen
May 04, 2023When we think of the ancient Mediterranean, our minds first turn to familiar names, such as the Greeks and Romans. Yet the ancient world was full of peoples, all of them living in sophisticated societ...