According to Cline, civilizations, much like living organisms, follow a life cycle of birth, youth, maturity, old age, and ...

a massive bronze ritual vessel that dates from the Late Shang / Early Western Zhou periods (12th–11th century BC), and agreed to donate the object to the Hunan Provincial Museum, where the lid ...

I read Classics as an undergraduate at New Hall, Cambridge, and completed a DPhil on 12th century BC Mycenaean pottery at Somerville College, Oxford in 1982. I researched and taught in Oxford, based ...