Gary Devore is an archaeologist and author currently affiliated with

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. 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 an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

from 2005-2009.

Works

Apart from his archaeological work, Devore has written an expansive novel called ''

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'' () that tells the story of the ancient Greek and Roman gods reclaiming their worship in the modern world. It is a

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Devore, Gary American archaeologists 1970 births Living people