Academic Publications

  • C. Barker & D. Wood Conroy, Travellers from Australia (exhibition catalogue) (Sydney 2017)

  • C. Barker, “Nea Paphos Theatre: 2016 Season”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 13, 2017, 14-15

  • C. Barker, “Recent Research at the Hellenistic and Roman theatre precinct of Nea Paphos”, in G. Bourogiannis & Ch. Mulenbock (eds) Ancient Cyprus Today. Museum Collections and New Research, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB184 (Uppsala 2016), 141-153
 
  • C. Barker, "The Theatre Precinct of Nea Paphos (Fabrika): Recent Excavations by the Australian Mission", in: C. Blander (ed.) New Paphos: Fondation et développement urbanistique d’une ville chypriote de l’antiquité à nos jours Études archéologiques, historiques et patrimoniales. Actes du 1er colloque international sur Paphos Avignon 30, 31 octobre et 1er novembre 2012 (Bordeaux 2016), 91-104 

  • C. Barker,  “Nea Paphos Theatre: 2015 Season”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 12, 2016, 14-17

  • C.D. Barker, "Some Initial Observations on a Building Excavated on Fabrika in Nea Paphos in Cyprus by the Australian Archaeological Mission", Studies in Art and Civilisation 19 (Krakow, 2015), 169-189

  • C.D. Barker, "Twenty Years of the University of Sydney Excavations of the Theatre Precinct in Nea Paphos in Cyprus", in: Australian Archaeological Fieldwork Abroad III, Ancient History Resources for Teachers. Vol. 45, 2015. 26-63

  • C. Barker, "From Performance to Quarry: The evidence of architectural change in the theatre precinct of Nea Paphos in Cyprus over seven centuries", in: S. Chandrasekaran & A. Kouremenos (eds), Continuity and Destruction in the Greek East:The transformation of monumental space from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity, BAR S2765, 2015, 33-48
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  • J.R. Green, C. Barker and G. Stennett, "The Hellenistic Phases of the Theatre at Nea Paphos in Cyprus: the Evidence from the Australian Excavations", in: R. Frederiksen, E.R. Gebhard & A. Sokolicek (eds), The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, vol. 17, 2015, 319-334.

  • C. Barker,  “Nea Paphos Theatre Excavations 2014”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 11, 2015, 16-17

  • C. Barker,  “Materials-Based Teaching in Museums: the experiences of educational programs at Sydney University Museums”, Journal of Artistic and Creative Education 7.1, 2014, 166-191 

  • C. Barker, “Nea Paphos Theatre Excavations 2012”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 10, 2014, 10-11

  • C. Barker, “James Stewart as Nicholson Museum curator (1954-1962)”, in: A.B. Knapp, J.M. Webb & A. McCarthy (eds),  J.R.B. Stewart: An Archaeological Legacy (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 139) (Uppsala 2013) 211-221

  • C. Barker,  ”Rhodian Amphorae From Cyprus: A Summary of the evidence and the issues”, in: M. Lawall & J. Lund (eds), The Transport Amphorae and Trade of Cyprus (Aarhus 2013) 101-110

  • C. Barker, "Nea Paphos Theatre Excavations 2011”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 9, 2013, 18-19

  • C. Barker, Aphrodite’s Island: Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus. The Cypriot Collection of the Nicholson Museum (Nicholson Museum: Sydney 2012)

  • C. Barker,  “Amphora stamps”,in: R.S. Bagnall, et al. (eds), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Blackwell Publishing:2012) 381-2

  • C. Barker, “Rhodian Amphorae and Alexandrian Architecture: Burials at the ‘Tombs of the Kings’ in Paphos, Cyprus”, Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation Bulletin 55, February 2012, 20-22

  • J.R. Green, C. Barker & R.S. Gabrieli, Fabrika: an ancient theatre of Nea Paphos (Moufflon Publishing: Nicosia 2011) (Greek language edition)

  • C. Barker,  “Nea Paphos Theatre Excavations 2010”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 8, 2011, 10-13

  • C. Barker, “Experiencing Archaeology: The Paphos Theatre Excavation Blog”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers Association of NSW 44.3, 2011, 32-35

  • C. Barker,  “Bichrome IV ware jug 750-600 BC” and ‘”Henry Moore (1898-1986)”, in: D. Malouf, et al., Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney (Melbourne 2010), 108-109 and 132

  • C. Barker,  “The 2009 Season of Excavations by the University of Sydney at the site of the ancient theatre of Nea Paphos”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 7, 2009-2010, 16-19

  • C. Barker, “The Australian Archaeological Expedition to Paphos in Cyprus: Excavations at the Site of the Hellenistic-Roman Theatre on Fabrika Hill”, Past Horizons 12, May 2010, 28-35

  • C. Barker,  “Using Modern Technology on an Ancient Mummy: Recent CT-scan results on an Egyptian mummy in the Nicholson Museum collection”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers Association of NSW 44.1, 2010, 29-34

  • C. Barker,  “Excavations at the Site of the Hellenistic-Roman Theatre of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, 2007-2008”, The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin 5, 20007/2008, 40-47

  • C. Barker &  G. Stennett, “The Architecture of the Ancient Theatre at Nea Paphos Revisited”, Mediterranean Archaeology 17, 2004, 253-274

  • J.R. Green, C. Barker & R.S. Gabrieli, Fabrika: An Ancient Theatre of Paphos (Moufflon Publishing: Nicosia 2004)

  • C. Barker,  “A Unique Burial Custom Involving Rhodian Amphorae at the ‘Tombs of the Kings’ in Nea Paphos, Cyprus”, in: J. Eiring & J. Lund (eds), Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean.  Acts of the International Colloquium at the Danish Institute at Athens, 26-29 September 2002.  Monograph of the Danish Institute at Athens V (Athens 2004) 73-84

  • C. Barker, G. Cincunegui & L. Diacopoulos, “An Archaeological Education”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers Association of NSW 38.4, 2004, 52-55

  • C. Barker, G. Cincunegui & L. Diacopoulos. “Teaching the Archaeology of Human remains to Students: The Perspective of the Nicholson Museum Education Program”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers Association of NSW 38.4, 2004, 4-10

  • C. Barker,  “Appendix: Rhodian Amphora Stamps”, in E. Raptou, et al., “A Hellenistic Tomb in Pegeia (P.M. 3534)”, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2002, 215-216

  • C. Barker,  “Three New Eponym-Fabricant Combinations on Rhodian Amphorae from the ‘Tombs of the Kings’ at Nea Pafos”, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2002, 189-200

  • C. Barker & A. Merryweather, “Report on the University of Sydney ‘Tombs of the Kings’ Project, 1998-2001”, Mediterranean Archaeology 15, 2002, 109-116

  • C. Barker,  “Hellenistic Stamped Amphora Handles Held in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney”, Mediterranean Archaeology 12, 1999, 111-123

Book Reviews

  • Iosif Hadjikyriakos and Mia Gaia Trentin (eds), "Cypriot Cultural Details: Proceedings of the 10th Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Confeence" (2015), AJA 121.3, 2017 (review here)
  • M. Corbishley, “Pinning Down the Past: Archaeological, Heritage and Education Today” (2011), Australian Archaeology 75,  2012, 121-2
  • P. Flourentzos (ed.), “From Evagoras I to the Ptolemies” (2007), Classical Review 61.1, 2011, 265-6
  • L. Rothschild, “The Rape of Mesopotamia” (2009), The Australian Literary Review, October 2010, 7
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Popular and Non-Academic Publications

  • "Three-dimensional archaeology: Using new technology to understand ancient theatre", SOPHI Magazine 5, Summer 2018, 22-24
  • "Travellers to Cyprus, art from Australia", MUSE 18, October 2017,10-13 (with D. Wood Conroy)           Link
  • "Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus", The Conversation, 9 October 2017    Link
  • "Hadrian's Legacy", MUSE 17, June 2017, 24-25          Link
  • "Friday essay: desecration and romanticism - the real curse of mummies", The Conversation, 26 May 2017   Link
  • “Come Walk With Us”, MUSE 16, March 2017, 28-29        Link
  • “If This Wall Could Talk”, MUSE 15, November 2016, 10-12   Link
  • “Ben-Hur can be fun on film but the real Roman spectacle would have thrilled anyone”, The Conversation, 23 August 2016
  •  “Tax Collection”, MUSE 14, June 2016, 16-18     Link 
  • ​“Tombs of Time”, MUSE 13, March 2016, 17-20   Link
  • “All that glisters is not gold”, MUSE 12, October 2015, 26-28   Link
  • “Black and White Pompeii”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW, 49.3, September 2015, 10-14
  • “Cambridge’s Cypriot Treasure Trove”, MUSE 11, June 2015, 27-29   Link
  • "Digging deeper holes: 20 years as an archaeologist in Cyprus", The Conversation, 30 June 2015    Link
  • “I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of Lego: The Nicholson Museum’s exhibitions of Lego models of classical monuments”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW, 49.1, March 2015, 38-42
  • “Pompeii in Plastic”, Education: NSW Teachers Federation Journal, 16 February 2015   Link
  • "Lego Pompeii creates less pomp and more yay in the museum", The Conversation, 23 January 2015    Link
  • “I’m Your Venus”, MUSE 9, October 2014, 6-7   Link
  • “Picture Pompeii’s Past”, MUSE 9, October 2014, 11-13   Link
  • “Images of Augustus: The Bi-millenium of the first Roman emperor”, Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW 48.3, September 2014, 7-9
  • "Down and dirty: what volunteers bring to archaeological digs", The Conversation, 8 September 2014     Link
  • “An Augustus Occasion: 2000 Years of Power”, MUSE 8, June 2014, 14-16   Link
  • “Into the Future”, MUSE 7, March 2014, 20-21   Link
  • “A Gentleman and A Scholar: Obituary for J. Basil Hennessy”, MUSE 7, March 2014, 10-11   Link
  • “Resolving the Murder of Ramesses III”, MUSE 4, March 2013, 1-3   Link
  • "Island of Archaeology: Celebrating Ancient Cyprus in the Nicholson Museum in Australia", Cyprus Today LI.1, January-March 2013, 36-39
  • "Off the Wall", Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW 47.3, 2013, 52-3
  • "Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus: Over Eight Decades of Historical Investigations on a Mediterranean Island", Teaching History: Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW 47.1, 2013, 32-37
  • “Cyprus: Country of Wonders”, MUSE 3, October 2012, 6-11   Link  
  • “The Queen and I”, MUSE 2, July 2012, 6-8  Link
  • “The Curator and the Cats”, MUSE 2, July 2012, 18-20   Link
  • “Every Object Tells a Story”, Archaeological Diggings 19.4, 2012
  • “Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie the Archaeologist”, Archaeological Diggings 19.1, 2012, 14-17
  • “Hopping In Stone”, MUSE 1, March 2012, 28-29   Link
  • “The Nicholson Digs the Past”, MUSE 1, March 2012, 26-27   Link
  • “Cyprus Pays Tribute to Sydney Archaeologists”, Archaeological Diggings 18.6, 2011, 14-15
  • “A Tale of Two Charleses”, Sydney University Museums News 25, October 2011, 8-9   Link  
  • “The Mysterious Etruscans”, Archaeological Diggings 18.4, 2011, 32-36
  • “Three Fragments from an Egyptian Coffin in the Nicholson Museum”, Archaeological Diggings 18.2, 2011, 15-17
  • (with K. de Beer) “Through the Archway: A Tale of Intrigue”, Sydney University Museums News 24, June 2011, 8-9   Link
  • “A Tale of Two Vases”, Archaeological Diggings 18.1, 2011, 16-19
  • “Woolley’s Wonder: Ur and the Nicholson Museum”, Sydney University Museums News 23, February 2011, 6-7   Link
  • “Not Quite Wimbledon”, Sydney University Museums News 22, October 2010, 7   Link
  • “Flying High: Cypriot bird vases in the Nicholson Museum collection”, Sydney University Museums News 22, October 2010, 20-21   Link
  • “Teaching with the Nicholson Collection”, Sydney University Museums News 20, February 2010, 11-12   Link
  • “Signed of the Times”, Sydney University Museums News 20, February 2010, 19-20   Link
  • “Australian Archaeologists Dig Cyprus”, Canberra Times, October 4, 2009, 42
  • “The Archaeology of Greek Theatre’, Archaeological Diggings Oct/Nov 2009, 37-43
  • “Exciting Finds: Paphos 2008”, Sydney University Museums News 17, March 2009, 10-11   Link
  • “Digging at Paphos 2”, Archaeological Diggings Dec/Jan 2009, 52-55
  • “Digging at Paphos 1”, Archaeological Diggings Oct/Nov 2008, 30-34
  •  “A Man of Contradictions: Sir Charles Nicholson and Victorian Spiritualism”, Sydney University News 16, October 2008, 8-9   Link
  • “Thumbs Up”, Sydney University Museums News 15, June 2008, 12   Link
  •  “‘The Grecian Urn is his Dish’”, Sydney University Museums News 14, February 2008, 10-11   Link
  • “In Memoriam: Robert Thornley”, Sydney University Museums News 14, February 2008, 12   Link
  • “Breakthroughs on Cyprus Dig”, Sydney University Museums News 11, February 2007, 6   Link
  • “Cypriot artefacts and the looting general”, Sydney University Museums News 9, June 2006, 3   Link
  • “Students explore University Museums”, Sydney University Museums News 8, February 2006, 5   Link
"Cambridge's Cypriot Treasure Trove", MUSE 11, June 2015, 27-29.
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"Cyprus: Country of Wonders", MUSE 3, October 2012, 6-11.

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