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I remember going to Allianoi on an ASCSA trip with John Camp in 2001, and promising to write about attempts to preserve it in Minerva (which I did), and getting other groups on board such as Europa Nostra (ditto). It's heart-breaking seeing these photos of the site covered in water.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
List of Objects Missing from the Egyptian Museum
Objects Missing from the Egyptian Museum_2011-03-15.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The SCA just released this pdf file of the object still missing from Cairo Museum - it's 54 pages with an item a page except for the amulets where 10 are grouped together (shabtis are given a page each).
It's nice to see the new post-Hawass regime is being so open - and hard to see how, although many of the items are quite small, how Zahi Hawass could have lied for so long about no objects being missing. A shockingly high number come from Tutankhamun's tomb and from the Amarna galleries.
The SCA just released this pdf file of the object still missing from Cairo Museum - it's 54 pages with an item a page except for the amulets where 10 are grouped together (shabtis are given a page each).
It's nice to see the new post-Hawass regime is being so open - and hard to see how, although many of the items are quite small, how Zahi Hawass could have lied for so long about no objects being missing. A shockingly high number come from Tutankhamun's tomb and from the Amarna galleries.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Lost Parthenon Metopes Located?
AFP: Long-lost marble fragments found in Acropolis walls
Archaeologists in Athens think that some metope panels may have been built into an 18th century fortification wall. This would be very exciting news! Thomas Hope, before Elgin's day, drew frieze blocks built into the walls, and at the time sculptures were little valued for anything other than turning into lime or re-using for their marble, so this is not altogether surprising.
Archaeologists in Athens think that some metope panels may have been built into an 18th century fortification wall. This would be very exciting news! Thomas Hope, before Elgin's day, drew frieze blocks built into the walls, and at the time sculptures were little valued for anything other than turning into lime or re-using for their marble, so this is not altogether surprising.
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