Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2004
Features
Antiquity’s High Holy Place
The Athenian Acropolis
In 480 B.C.E. the Persians invaded Athens. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, they “plundered the temple and burnt the whole of the Acropolis.”1 Although the Athenians and their allies followed up with a victory at the famous naval battle of Salamis, the Persian army returned the...Read more ›
Death at Halmyris
Two Christian Martyrs at a Roman Outpost on the Danube
The fabled Danube, Europe’s second longest river, has its source in Germany’s Black Forest and winds eastward 1,800 miles to Romania, where it empties into the Black Sea. Just south of where the Danube flows into the sea is a rocky strip of land...Read more ›
Going, Going, Going, Gone!
A Report on Archaeological Sites in Iraq
A great deal of attention has been paid to the events of April 2003—when Baghdad fell to Coalition forces and looters pillaged the National Museum. Fortunately, most of the high-value artifacts on display in the public galleries of the museum had been securely stored elsewhere by the...Read more ›