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Journal of Urban Archaeology, Issue 13, is dedicated to reimagining how we understand urban history through archival and legacy data.

Journal of Urban Archaeology, Issue 13, is dedicated to reimagining how we understand urban history through archival and legacy data.

Meet the newest member of the LoCi team, Postdoc Rory McInnes-Gibbons

Rowan S. English and Julia Steding explore the daily use of ivory in their article "Beyond the luxurious: Tracing the Late Antique ivory trade", published in Current World Archaeology.

Last week, Brepols published "Catastrophes in Context: Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World", edited by Rubina Raja and Andrew Wilson. This collection moves beyond viewing ancient disasters as isolated incidents, instead framing them as transformative moments that reshaped…

Eleanor has received a visiting fellowship to be undertaken starting in January 2027 at the interdisciplinary research centre, CRASSH, in order to further work on the historiography of community engagement with archaeology.

A new podcast titled Urban Opinion was released on 8 May 2026, offering listeners a wide-ranging journey through the history of urban societies from the emergence of the first cities to modern metropolitan centers.

What did portraits look like on the edges of the Roman Empire? In the new publication "Portraying the Individual in the Roman East", editor Rubina Raja shifts the focus away from Rome itself to the vibrant borderlands where local identities met imperial power.

Lecture on 6 May on Denmark’s Role on the International Antiquities Collectors' Scene in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

We are pleased to share a recent review of The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East by Céline Debourse (Harvard University), published by Bryn Mawr Classical Review.