Archaeology Odyssey takes the reader on a journey through the classical world as seen through the eyes of the top archaeologists in the discipline. Written with you in mind, the experts explain the latest in classical research in a way that is accessible to the general public. Read the complete series today!
There is no West without Homer. So perhaps it is not surprising that the two most important 20th-century contributions to the study of classics—made by the American scholar Milman Parry (1902–1935) and the British architect Michael Ventris (1922–1956)—were also important contributions to our understanding of Homer.
After determining that objects in their archaeological collections had entered this country under suspicious circumstances, two U.S. university museums separately announced plans last summer to repatriate the artifacts to their countries of origin.
History, we often say, begins with the written word. What comes before writing is prehistory.
Nautical archaeology has taught us much about ancient seafaring, but some details do not survive in the archaeological record. To fill in the picture, we can turn to iconography, that is, ancient depictions of seagoing vessels—though we must remember that depictions of ships are not the ships themselves. Here are some examples of what we can learn from iconography.
