Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
How the National Archaeological Museum (Athens) saved its treasures in WWII
http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/3728
Article translated from a Greek magazine that details how heroic curators and scholars buried the statues and vases of the museum beneath the floor in the days before World War II broke out. Thus, the antiquities were saved. Too bad they didn't have the Trojan gold.
Article translated from a Greek magazine that details how heroic curators and scholars buried the statues and vases of the museum beneath the floor in the days before World War II broke out. Thus, the antiquities were saved. Too bad they didn't have the Trojan gold.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Aerial photography of snowy landscape in Wales reveals ancient earthworks
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/need-to-read/2013/03/28/snowy-landscape-reveals-wales-forgotten-ancient-remains-91466-33079168/
Several amazing photos taken from the air during a big snowstorm in Wales reveal some previously unidentified Neolithic and Bronze Age structures, such as hillforts and burial mounds. The snow helps the contours of the land stand out.
Several amazing photos taken from the air during a big snowstorm in Wales reveal some previously unidentified Neolithic and Bronze Age structures, such as hillforts and burial mounds. The snow helps the contours of the land stand out.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
What Roman Peasants Ate: Millet (aka birdseed)
http://www.livescience.com/27569-ancient-romans-ate-millet.html
Chemical analysis of skeltons from two cemeteries near Rome of the Imperial period suggest that people out in the boondocks ate a very monotonous diet: millet, millet, and more millet. Ancient literary sources refer to millet as feed for livestock.
Cool new way to study history.
Chemical analysis of skeltons from two cemeteries near Rome of the Imperial period suggest that people out in the boondocks ate a very monotonous diet: millet, millet, and more millet. Ancient literary sources refer to millet as feed for livestock.
Cool new way to study history.
Water/Sewage pipe burst in Khufu Boat museum near Pyramids
http://bikyanews.com/86316/breaking-ancient-egypt-pryamid-boat-threatened-after-sewage-burst/
Egypt! Get your act together! Protect your infrastructure, which protects your cultural heritage, which feeds your economy!
This is the museum that holds the wooden boat that dates to the time of the building of the Great Pyramids.
Egypt! Get your act together! Protect your infrastructure, which protects your cultural heritage, which feeds your economy!
This is the museum that holds the wooden boat that dates to the time of the building of the Great Pyramids.
Good News from Mali, for a change
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/majority-of-timbuktu-manuscripts-were-smuggled-to-safety-a-885408.html
It appears that 80% of the manuscripts from the Timbuktu library were saved when German diplomats helped evacuate them from the area before the Islamist fighters could burn them.
It appears that 80% of the manuscripts from the Timbuktu library were saved when German diplomats helped evacuate them from the area before the Islamist fighters could burn them.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Pater Noster: Benedict's last audience
Video of Pope Benedict XVI singing the Lord's Prayer in Latin at the end of his last public audience in St. Peter's Square, Feb. 27, 2013.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/50969249#50969249
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/50969249#50969249
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