University of British Columbia Studies in the Ancient World

Investigates the archaeology and economic development of an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over 1000 years of Hellenistic and Roman rule..

Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the British Government.

The traditional picture of the Phoenicians in Iberia is that of wily traders drawn there by the irresistible lure of the fabulous mineral wealth of the El Dorado of the ancient world.