January 2012
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Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011 →
Visit the link for all ten.
1) A small 2,500-year old wooden statue in perfect conditions. The impressive find was made in the Sanctuary of Artemis in Vravrona during building works on the archaeological site’s drainage well. Other objects were found alongside the statuette, all of them dating from the 5th century BC. 2) A square jasper stamp, dark red in colour and bearing incisions in...
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Italy allows Unesco into Pompeii The Roman city... →
Although much of Pompeii remains in good repair, the problems are numerous, including “inappropriate restoration methods and a general lack of qualified staff… restoration projects are outsourced and the quality of the work of the contractors is not being assessed. An efficient drainage system is lacking, leading to water infiltration and excessive moisture that gradually degrades the...
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AIA Annual Meetings
For those of you interested, I have been live-tweeting some of the sessions from the Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America. I’m mostly going to sessions on Roman material, but there are a few others tweeting under the hashtag #aiaapa.
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December 2011
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Top 10 Ancient History News of 2011 →
Egyptian Museum, gladiators, Roman latrines, Valley of the Kings & more.
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Colosseum May Be a Fixer-Upper but It's Not... →
Follow-up to the previous story:
Italian archaeology officials on Wednesday played down Italian news reports that chunks of masonry had been falling off the Colosseum. “Nothing has collapsed” at the Colosseum “since the 18th century,” said a statement issued by a department of the Culture Ministry responsible for Rome’s archaeological sites. The Colosseum, the first-century A.D. arena, is...
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Blogging Pompeii: Column collapses in the Casa del... →
Lots of links here (most in Italian) on the collapse of a pilaster in the House of Octavius Quartio. This house was the subject of my doctoral dissertation, so I am following this news quite closely. From the looks of it, the pilaster that collapsed was one that was rebuilt post-excavation, in the 1950’s. In other words, the pilaster was rebuilt with ancient material in its original spot,...
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November 2011
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2300 Ancient Sites on Google Earth →
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October 2011
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Ancient Etruscan childbirth image is likely a... →
More on this image, discussed below. Follow the link for more commentary & a video.
An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child.
Researchers from the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, which oversees the Poggio Colla...
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Libyan Capital Museum Reopens →
Archaeologists with Tripoli’s Assaraya Al Hamra museum say they are now finally able to show off the country’s treasures. Despite the unrest that has swept cities across the north African country, museum workers say they managed to save hundreds of artifacts, which include statues and coins that date back to Roman times, from looters.
Follow the link for a video on the museum.
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