Often, the best ideas are so simple that you wonder why no one else invented them before. Last Sunday, I visited the small city of Aardenburg, close to the Dutch-Belgian border, to see the remains of the Roman fort. It…
Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.
Permission for photography can be obtained.
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Old collection with several very, very fine pieces from the Numidian, Roman, and Byzantine age: mosaics, sculpture, metal. In the garden are several inscriptions.
There are 18 items in…
In the late 1980s, I was working at the excavation of Hellenistic Halos, a heavily fortified port in southeastern Thessaly. Although I soon discovered that I lacked the qualities to be a good archaeologist, I usually enjoyed my work and…
The museum park Archeon in Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherland) is always worth a visit. It contains many reconstructions of Dutch buildings from Prehistory, Antiquity, and Middle Ages. For example, you can have a drink in the mansio (inn) near…
Amman's archaeological museum used to be in the city citadel. Many objects are still there, but many others have been brought to the new Jordan Museum. Still, the old exhibition rooms remain worth a visit.
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