Wet Archaeology of a Phallic Fish Sculpture

The phallic fish in the dream had teeth which puzzled me… but it did not click at all till I … More

Stratigraphy of a tropical civilization

Earlier this year I participated in an excavation at the site of Camorim, in Jacarepaguá, in the west zone of the … More

Going through the British Institute Archive, photographs of an early British expedition to Jerash caught my eye. Photography as still life. … More

The exhibit in the Jordanian Museum of Popular Traditions (set up by the artist Ali Jabri in 1971; you can find … More

A cave in Iraq al-Amir, 20 km from Amman. The ancient Hebrew/Aramaic inscription reads ‘Tobiyah'(in classical Hebrew script: טוביה), a … More

Impressions from the Roman Theatre in Amman

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“An essentially accompanied emptiness, where the visible outlines of the figures exist in a symbiotic relationship with the invisible void of … More

night on the citadel

After returning from an oddly arduous journey from Beidha (I went to visit some archaeologists working on the … More