Focus on Archaeology

April 2013 issue | Appears on page 62

Beneath Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio
By Julie Skurdenis
Beneath 
Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio (1 of 2 on Italy)
March 2013 issue | Appears on page 60

Abbeys of County Mayo
By Julie Skurdenis
Ballintubber Abbey and its cloister. Photos: Skurdenis
Exploring ruined abbeys of County Mayo (2 of 2 on Ireland)
February 2013 issue | Appears on page 60

Antiquities in our backyard — Dingle Peninsula
By Julie Skurdenis
The entrance to the Dunbeg promontory fortress — Dingle Peninsula. Photos: Skurd
From the prehistoric to the present on the Dingle Peninsula (1 of 2 on Ireland).
December 2012 issue | Appears on page 61

Palaces of Sintra
By Julie Skurdenis
Façade of the Tivoli Palácio de Seteais in Sintra.
A look at three royal palaces in Sintra (2 of 2 
on Portugal)
November 2012 issue | Appears on page 59

Of love and war — two Portuguese monasteries

By Julie Skurdenis
Two remarkable monasteries: Alcobaça and Batalha (1 of 2 on Portugal)
October 2012 issue | Appears on page 58

Bergen: Hanseatic city
By Julie Skurdenis
The view of the Bryggen from our room at the Clarion Admiral Hotel — Bergen.
The Bryggen of Bergen — Norway’s Hanseatic 
legacy
August 2012 issue | Appears on page 63

Aborigines of Sydney
By Julie Skurdenis
An Aboriginal painting in the Australian Museum — Sydney. Photo: Skurdenis
Finding examples of Australia’s Aboriginal 
culture in Sydney’s museums, galleries and public gardens
July 2012 issue | Appears on page 62

Berlin’s Ethnological Museum ‘discovered’
By Julie Skurdenis
The painted Seler Lienzo II cloth from Mexico (c. 1600).
Ancient treasures amassed in Berlin, Germany’s, Ethnological Museum