by Patrick Hagerty | Aug 13, 2024 | Research Blog
I find myself, for the last time, in a familiar location: I’m in a coffee shop sweating bullets while racking my brain for the contents of my blog post. I normally try to put some fun, wacky twist on my posts, but for now I’m in more of a reflective mood. The first...
by Patrick Hagerty | Aug 4, 2024 | Research Blog
(Other working titles included “Sherds Are Forever,” “From Antiochia with Love,” and “The Man with the Golden Trowel”) I step off the helicopter, taking in the sights and sounds of the private jungle island. I make my way into the secret base inside of the volcano,...
by Patrick Hagerty | Jul 27, 2024 | Research Blog
Two whole weeks! Very short time to accomplish the amount of work that we have done, ladies and gentlemen, many people are saying this. Say, I’m up in Unit 7B, wonderful people, folks, let me tell you. There were a lot of roots up there at the start, Holm Oak is what...
by Patrick Hagerty | Jul 21, 2024 | Research Blog
With a week already gone in Turkey, there are a number of things on my mind. My foremost concern before the trip was the heat: I handle heat horribly, and can’t stand any sort of humidity. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how well my body has acclimated to the...
by Patrick Hagerty | Jul 8, 2024 | Research Blog
Two places that really caught my attention in the readings are the colonnades and the great bath. At the time of Hoff’s writing, he mentioned that the colonnades were being restored, and seeing a free-standing column would be really cool (though I’m not...
