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Exhibition: Opening the Vaults
My Fox Chicago Exciting new discoveries at the Field Museum are unlocking some mummy mysteries.Last summer, the museum staff wheeled out their mummies into a special mobile X-ray scanner in the parking...
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EES Magazine: Egyptian Archaeology 40
Egypt Exploration SocietyEA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts...
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The future of Libyan heritage and tourism
The New York Times (Mike Elkin)More than 2,600 years after the Greeks founded the city of Cyrene in the mountains of northeastern Libya, the ancient gymnasium’s high stone walls still shield athletes...
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Lecute notes: University of Basel Kings Valley Project – Suzanne Bickel
Luxor News (Jane Akshar)As this was the very first lecture about the newly discovered tomb KV64 the room was completely full but Suzanne teased us just a little bit by putting it in context with all...
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Amara West - Reconstructed doorway with hieroglyph-inscribed lintel
British Museum (Neal Spencer)With photos. Five weeks ago, Mary Shepperson revealed the remains of a stone doorway, tumbled into room two of house E13.6. Over the last few days we have reconstructed the...
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More from iMalqata: Work in the South Village
iMalqata (Catherine Roehrig)With two lovely photographs of the blue-painted pottery. In the first days we were on the site, before we hired any workmen, I stood between several pairs of mounds and...
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2nd phase of the Khufu solar boat restoration project
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)With three photos.At an international press conference held on Egypt's Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to...
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Religion Professors: What We Really Do Meme
I had not yet seen a contribution to the “What I Really Do” meme depicting religion professors, so I thought I’d try my hand at one. What do you think? Any suggestions for improvements?EDIT: Here’s...
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Douris, Borowski and a new appointment
The J. Paul Getty Museum is to have a new director, Dr Timothy Potts, presently director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ("Dr. Timothy Potts Named Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum", press...
View ArticleClimate change - Holocene style
A lake in the north western region of Spain, known as the Principality of Asturias, is revealing data of climatic changes as far back as 12,000 years ago. Lake Enol...
View ArticleWonderful World of Novelties
Around 11 Water Street, just North of King Street, you'll find a decommissioned truck from Rebman's, a shop of gifts and novelties. Rebman's was founded in 1954 and was a fixture in Lancaster's history...
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Batten Down the Hatches!
A Greek museum containing major antiquities is looted: "Two armed robbers broke into an Olympia Museum and made off with between 60 to 70 bronze and clay pottery objects. They tied up and gagged the...
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US Dugup Dealer Shows True Colours and True Aims of their Anti CCPIA Movement
.The news of the armed robbery of the Olympia Museum was greeted with shock and dismay by the cultural community today, but among those involved in the trade in antiquities there was a totally...
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Antiquities Issues and the New Getty Appointment
.The antiquities issues in the background to the appointment of Timothy Potts as director of the Getty Museum from September are discussed by Jason Felch in the Los Angeles Times ('Antiquities issue...
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Museum at Olympia Robbed in Daring Raid
.The news that is guaranteed to send US antiquities dealers into paroxysms of delighted 'gottcha' - excitement is that about 7:30 this morning, the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Ancient...
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Not About "Repatriations"
.American collectors and dealers' lobbyists don't seem to get it. Thick as planks the lot of them. They are constantly banging on about how the US "should not repatriate" stolen artefacts to countries...
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What Do You Know About the Trojan War?
© Clipart.com True or False? Homer describes the Trojan Horse in the final book of The Iliad. Achilles was one of the leading warriors inside the Trojan Horse. Odysseus was a draft dodger. Find the...
View ArticleNewspaper article: Viaggio-incubo dentro gli scavi di Ercolan
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Ovid, Art of Love 2.107
ut ameris amabilis esto. If you want to be loved – be loveable! Filed under: Ovid
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Open Access Journal: Arab World English Journal (AWEJ)
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ)ISSN: 2229-9327 Welcome to the Arab World English Journal (AWEJ). AWEJ is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and open-access e-journal for scholars, researchers, teachers, and...
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