Only In Greece…The Acropolis could be leased.
Conservative New Democracy MP and former deputy health minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos, suggested on Monday that the Acropolis and other archaeological sites be leased to private firms in a bid to bring much-needed revenue into the debt-ridden country.
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COLUMBIA — Paul Cary found himself in Toppenish, Wash., this past year because of a basket.
The coordinator of MU Toxicology discovered in 2008 that a rare Native American basket he had purchased for his personal collection was stolen from a museum of the Pacific Northwest Yakama tribe.
Read More Here: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2012/01/08/columbia-hero-returned-native-american-historical-artifact-home/
Conference gave scholars a chance to interact with each other and youngsters from around the country.
ISLAMABAD:
A four-day international conference on archaeology concluded with an emphasis on the need to undertake new studies and immediate steps to preserve endangered cultural heritages in the region.
The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a “lost world” of North American caribou hunters from nearly 10,000 years ago.
Read More Here: http://www.canada.com/technology/Discovery+adds+fuel+theory+lost+world+under+Lake+Huron/5959054/story.html
Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010.
Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.
The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.
Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/#
After nearly nine years in Iraq, the final combat troops continue to arrive back in the U.S. The war that officially began eight years and nine months earlier cost nearly 4,500 American, well more than 100,000 Iraqi lives and $800 billion from the U.S. Treasury. The bitterly divisive conflict left Iraq shattered and struggling to recover. For the United States, two central questions remain unanswered: whether it was all worth it, and whether the new government the Americans leave behind will remain a steadfast U.S. ally or drift into Iran’s orbit. Here is a look back with some of the most memorable photographs of the war. (AP)
Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. Some images contain dead bodies, graphic content and tragic events. We consider these images an important part of human history.
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/12/30/captured-nine-years-of-war-in-iraq/5165/
A tiny stamp bearing an image of the Temple Menorah and likely placed on baked goods some 1,500 years ago has turned up during excavations near the Israeli city of Akko, researchers announced.
The Israel Antiquities Authority discovered the ceramic stamp while excavating at Horbat Uza, a small rural settlement east of the city Akko, before construction of a railroad track connecting Akko and Karmiel in northern Israel.
Read More Here: http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-menorah-stamp-marked-kosher-bread-152804390.html
Detail of the headdress of Queen Puabi, ca. 2600 BCE, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.
(Go to the Penn Museum to see their Ur galleries and excellent overview of the excavations).
President Bashar al-Assad says his priority is to restore order in Syria which he said can only be achieved by “hitting terrorists with an iron fist.”
More updates from his speech on our live blog: http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/Syria
Cairo has one of the most effective recycling programs in the Middle East. But it’s borne on the backs of the city’s “garbage people,” Coptic Christians who harvest and sort 15,000 tons of waste every day. Their lives are documented in a new film Zabaleen…Cairo is nominally responsible for tending to waste. But corruption has resulted in an erosion of municipal services, and the Zabaleen take up the slack…
Read More, plus Watch a Video, here.
Mastaba at Saqqara, Memphis
Imhotep, architect to King Djoser, was inspired to stack successively smaller mastabas in order to create the grandest tomb Egypt had seen. The result was this, the Step Pyramid.
Imhotep was considered the founder of medicine, and was later deified. The location of his tomb is still unknown, despite many efforts to find it. There is no evidence to suggest he woke up in the 1920’s and terrorized Cairo.
MOD NOTE:
Sadly, it has a lot more scaffolding now. The Saqqara complex itself is amazing, as is the “Step pyramid”, and the Imhotep Museum is worth checking out too. I believe they have a replica of Lauer’s office/library with all his stuff during excavation, too.
Moss-Covered Truck, Michigan
Photo: Jason Rydquist
It’s hard to imagine this 1940s Chevrolet pickup moving down the road. Showcasing the ephemeral truth of automobiles, the earth has overtaken it.
The author using a strobe light (electornic flash) in a cultural inventory of a Pueblo Indian home in New Mexico.
John Collier, Jr.
Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
