Gold Glass Roundtable

For once dig director Chris Lightfoot will not be speaking about Amorium, even though the site has produced a lot of gold glass mosaic tesserae. For details of this event in New York on March 28, 2009, click here.

The 31st Annual Archaeological Symposium

This year's symposium will take place between May 25 and 29 and will be hosted by Pamukkale University, Denizli. Included in the program will be a presentation in Turkish on the Amorium Excavations 2008. Details will be posted in due course.

The Amorium Excavation website is happy to host the 8th Istanbul Byzantine Circular (January 2009).

New article on the “Skeleton Crystals” from Amorium!

An article on the “Skeleton Crystals” from Amorium was recently published in The Microscope Vol 56:3, published by the McCrone Research Institute. More to follow on this development!