Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Saturday, June 10th, 2006
EAA president Anthony Harding recently visited Visocica, site of the so-called 'Bosnian pyramid'. During a later press conference in Sarajevo on Bosnian heritage, he rejected all claims that the hill was man-made. Archaeology magazine, published by the Archaeological Institute of America, has a useful summary of the press coverage ...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
The UK Government has signed the European Landscape Convention, which aims 'to promote landscape protection, management and planning' and commits the signatories to integrate landscape into land use planning, involve the public in landscape issues, protect outstanding landscapes through national landscape laws and policies, raise awareness through education and the ...
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
BBC News reports on the on-going rescue excavations at the site of Yenikapi in Istanbul. The excavations, on the European side of Boshporus, have so far revealed a Byzantine harbour, including the remains of 8 boats. They promise many more exciting finds and knowledge about the topography of early Constantinople. ...
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
A number of media are reporting on the recently published C-14 dating of an olive branch extracted from a geological layer dating back to the volcanic eruption at Thera. This major earthquake wiped out Minoan civilization and affected many parts of the eastern Mediterranean. The new date proposed by Walter ...
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
Today is the city of Rome's 2759th birthday. It was celebrated with the re-opening of the Ara Pacis Museum in its new home, designed by American architect Richard Meier. The Ara Pacis still looms large in the city's historical imagination. It is also the first building to be built in ...
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
New York University recently accepted a $200 million donation to create an Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The donation was made by the owner of one of North America's largest private collections of archaeological artefacts, Shelby White, on behalf of herself and her late husband, Leon Levy. ...
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
(BBC News, 1 April 2006)
The road, built in 1959, is one of Britain's oldest motorways, and has changed little since then.
It still has many original features, including the very distinctive bridges designed by Sir Owen Williams and Partners for the M45 and adjoining M1.
Full report here.
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
A group of spectacular, recent finds from the tombs of Thracian kings are to be put on view in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen from Friday 31 March to Sunday 30 April 2006. The exhibition, that includes the 5/4th century BCE bronze head seen to the right, has been ...
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Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Sage Publications, the publisher of the European Journal of Archaeology, is currently running a free trial offer of online access to the EJA and other selected archaeology and anthropology titles. Register here.
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Theiss Verlag, probably the leading archaeological publisher in Germany, celebrates its 50th birthday.
They sent me a press release (in German). Unfortunately no special offers on books - but a chance to reflect upon the amasing success of this determined company.
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