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"Many of my students are surprised by how close the ancient world feels once they begin studying it. At first, they assume it’s going to feel distant or irrelevant — but the more we read and discuss, the more they realise how much we still have in common with people from thousands of years ago."

“There’s this one person who I work with who likes to call me ‘The Maggot King’. I work with all kinds of maggots — onion maggots, seed corn maggots, cabbage maggots — you name it.”

“Archaeology is essentially the study of history, but it focuses more on material remains than written texts. Things like the remains of houses, walls, or even pottery — all kinds of materials from the past.”