Gary Devore is an archaeologist and author currently affiliated with
Stanford University
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.
He is a director and principal investigator of the Binchester Project excavating the
Binchester Roman Fort
Vinovia or Vinovium was a Roman fort and settlement situated just over to the north of the town of Bishop Auckland on the banks of the River Wear in County Durham, England. The fort was the site of a hamlet until the late Middle Ages, but the ...
in the UK.
He is a former director of the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS) that excavated in
Pompeii
Pompeii ( ; ) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Villa Boscoreale, many surrounding villas, the city was buried under of volcanic ash and p ...
from 2005-2009.
Works
Apart from his archaeological work, Devore has written an expansive novel called ''
Pantheon'' () that tells the story of the ancient Greek and Roman gods reclaiming their worship in the modern world. It is a
Humanistic
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
The meaning of the term "humanism" ha ...
work that critiques many aspects of organized religion.
Devore is also the author of a guidebook to Rome targeted toward "tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring first-hand the grandeur and magnificence that was ancient Rome through a Humanist, secular, and freethinking lens."
[http://garydevore.com] It is called ''Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City'' ().
References
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American archaeologists
1970 births
Living people