Friday, November 11, 2016
In the year 14 BCE a young Phoenician named Pelles celebrated his 19th birthday just like he spent most days – working in his father’s glass studio on the outskirts of Sidon. Yet, something was amiss. He failed to notice the loud arguing voices in the distance, until he was grabbed from behind and dragged outside....
Friday, February 26, 2016
In the last several decades, the ocean floors in Southeast Asia have yielded a new category of sunken treasures – antique ceramics. Since ancient times cargo ships traveled along the maritime silk route, trading a variety of commodities including ceramics. When these ships met ill-fated ends, most of the cargo was destroyed in the sea but many high-fired vessels survived undamaged, waiting hundreds of years to be discovered once more....
