[Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum. Litauen. Mykolas Michelbertas]

ENBooks by Lithuanian authors in a foreign language are rare in the archaeological world. Feeling more as in habitants of a European province rather than patriots of our own country, we still hesitate to present the results of our research in other languages which are popular and widely used in the international academic community. A welcome exception is this new study, which has recently reached its readers. The author is a famous Lithuanian archaeologist, head of the department of archaeology at Vilnius university, professor Mykolas Michelbertas, who has dedicated all his scientific talent to old iron age exploration, collecting in driblets, and accumulating information about the seemingly distant Roman Empire, its provinces and the relations of the Baltic tribes with it. He has produced over 350 scientific and popular articles, and several large studies on the exploration of archaeological monuments.