ARCHAEOLOGY

THE SCIENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

This summer, I’ll be returning to Sicily to study the late Roman shipwreck at Marzamemi, the remnants of a vessel that carried 100 tons of marble columns, column bases, and capitals bound from the quarries of Proconnesus in Turkey to build

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