A self-taught ornithologist, he won a MacArthur fellowship for his precise, resplendent illustrations that appeared in definitive field guides to tropical songbirds.

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi and the Riace bronzes: like them, the Antikythera Ephebe still has its original eyes, made of glass paste, and those eyes are the reason […]

The Huashan rock paintings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, stretch over 260 kilometers along the Zuojiang River valley, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. More than 80 sites with human figures, animals, and bronze objects decorate cliffs that rise dozens of meters above the water. Created at least 2000 […]

The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium. During the meeting, representatives from Italian and foreign institutions and universities participating in research activities at the site shared the progress of their respective […]