Harvard University Press Publicity Blog

Mary Beard interview--Part 2

BLDGBLOG has posted Part 2 of the interview with Mary Beard, editor of the Wonders of the World series and author of the forthcoming The Roman Triumph. Also, don't miss Mary's Times Online blog "A Don's Life."

The Rosetta Stone

In Sunday's Washington Post Book Review, Jonathon Keats reminds us of what the Rosetta Stone meant to the generation that discovered it while reviewing John Ray's new HUP book on the subject, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt.

The lost fort at Jamestown

The Washington Post has a new article up in their Jamestown series--this one about archaeologists' unearthing of the settlement's long-lost fort.