New Hope for a Forgotten City
Rose's breezy first-person account of his visit to the dig at Assos on Turkey's Aegean coast between Troy and Pergamon recounts the archaeological history of the site, which was the American Institute of Archaeology's first dig in 1881. However, it was subsequently neglected for a century, and 1980s work at the site added a number of poor reconstructions. The piece also includes a historical synopsis of ancient Assos, an important regional center dominated by its more powerful neighbors, and contains a useful (if brief) account of the site as it stands today -- dominated by a poorly reconstructed temple of Athena.
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