Excavation Exposes Roman Imperial Outpost at Its Bitter End

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

William Aylward, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of classics, recently completed a synthesis of the epic archaeological rescue excavation of Zeugma before its inundation beneath the waters of a reservoir. "Excavations at Zeugma," the three-volume work edited by Aylward, gathers the descriptions and interpretations of nearly 30 scholars involved in either the rescue work or the decade-long analysis of the objects and buildings unearthed at the city.

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