In this week’s blog post, Dr. Marta Alberti Dunn reflects on her research on the history of volunteers on Hadrian’s Wall and the evolution of those tasked with performing skilled labour on the excavation of this site.
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Blog Post #69: Beyond East and West: Conceptions of Naukratis
In November we reflect on our conceptions of “east” and “west” through a series of blog posts investigating cross-cultural interaction in the ancient world and modern interpretations of it. We start with a post by our blog editor, Megan Daniels, on the ancient city of Naukratis and its role in 19th-century western European imaginations.
Peopling the Past 