Current World Archaeology 97

'- Origins of pleasure: inside Cyrus the Great’s puzzling palace
- Death beside the Danube: digging a Napoleonic battlefield
- The power of Saharan rock art: creating images in a changing world
- The little things in life: investigating the past one micrometre at a time
- Greece: destination Dhaskalio
- Kosovo: the lost Roman city of Ulpiana

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Cover Date: Oct / Nov 2019 | Volume 9 Issue Volume 9 Issue 1

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1a Pasargadae Cyrus tomb DSC05733Pasargadae: seeking the origins of a garden palaceOn the plain of Pasargadae, Cyrus the Great founded a spectacular garden palace. Nothing like it had ever been seen in the region before, raising…

News

Above Beneath the waters of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay, archaeologists found the remains of a small tholos, a Greek round temple. Among the fallen Doric columns were ritual artefacts and statuettes, including this 3rd to 2nd century BC Isis Aphrodite anasyromene.New discoveries from the lost cities of the Nile delta

Views

Above Homes in Pompeii were decorated with frescoes celebrating food and feasting. This AD 45 79 still life wall panel from the House of the Chaste Lovers depicts a cockerel pecking at pomegranates, figs, and pears on a shelf.Last Supper in PompeiiThe extraordinary levels of preservation at the relatively ordinary Roman city of Pompeii and other sites in the Bay of Naples, where the eruption of…
Post 1 image0 119 scaledCyclades: Homage to DhaskalioMy trip, then, was a pilgrimage of sorts, to visit Colin Renfrew and his newly-found sanctuary.