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Travels with an Archaeologist: Finding a Sense of Place by Richard Hodges

A review of Travels with an Archaeologist from Manhattan Book Review

Travel broadens the horizon, as the anonymous “they” tell us. But they omit to point out how digging deep beneath the earth’s surface can broaden even more.

Digging at the Colosseum

The Colosseum or the Flavian Amphitheatre as it was known in Antiquity is a worldwide symbol of recognition. Very rarely does one come across anyone who doesn’t place the city of Rome alongside an image of the Colosseum.