Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, the superintendent of Pompeii and Herculaneum, has a sense of moderation that sets him apart from his predecessors. By Peter A. Young
The United States faces a resource crisis in archaeology, especially for the classical world. Can American institutions justify funding huge digs like that at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum? By Stephen L. Dyson
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Appreciating a millennium of art at the end of the Silk Road
(Dunhuang, Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road. R. Whitfield, photographs by Seigo Otsuka. 2 vols.: 355 pages and 393 color plates. London: Textile and Art Publications Ltd., 1995. $475.00. ISBN 1-898406-05-7: To order, call 44-171-499-7979; Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road. N. Agnew, ed. Proceedings of an International Conference of Grotto Sites. 405 pages. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1997. $75.00 ISBN 0-89236-416-5: To order, call 1-800-223-3431.) Reviewed by James O. Caswell. (Check
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A review of the new Neandertal Museum in Mettmann, Germany, and its exhibition of human evolution.
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A review of Perseus 2.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, a CD-ROM containing ancient texts, information about artifacts, images of objects and archaeological sites, and essays on history and archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Comprehensive edition, $350.00, ISBN 0-300-05936-1; Concise Edition, $150.00, ISBN 0-300-05939-6. To order, call Yale University Press, 1-800-987-7323.) Reviewed by Harrison Eiteljorg, II.
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