For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by ancient history and archaeology. Back in high school I spent many hours at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, formerly known as the Oriental Institute. It is still a priority when I visit Chicagoland.

Links to some pictures I took many years ago:

• Ephesus
• Miletos and Didyma
• Pergamum
• Troy

Some of my posts about ancient history.

• The origins of the Indo-Europeans
• Indo-Hittite
• Hittite Iron
• A Newly Discovered Hittite City
• The Archaeology of Armageddon
• Large Scale Engineering in the Bronze Age
• Minoan and Mycenaean, Matriarchy and Patriarchy
• News from the Bronze Age
• Lost to History No More
• Found in the Citadel of Tiryns
• Life in Late Bronze Age Greece
• From Bronze to Iron
• The Sea Peoples,….
• Writing history
• Dark Age Greece
• His/Her Story: A landed woman
• A techie note from church
• The Most Dysfunctional Family in History. The Ptolemies.
• Kingship and sacrifice in ancient Ireland
• Archaeology and the Druids
• A Death in Pagan Britain
• On this day in 53 B.C….. Carrhae.
• Why the Germans do not speak a Romance language. Also see A Novel of Ancient Rome.
• The drink that powered the Roman Empire
• Notes on the ancient Roman world. Slavery in the Roman world.
• The End of the Britains. When the Romans left.