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Debt-Ridden Greece Hopes Ancient Sites Can Yield New Cash

ATHENS — This is what it has come to in Greece: the Acropolis, the quintessential symbol of Greek culture and identity, could soon become a popular destination for fashion photographers and Hollywood producers, as cultural officials look for ways to raise money to make up for cuts in public financing.

Graffiti depicting graffiti removal by Banksy.

Created in May 2008 at Leake Street in London, painted over by August 2008. Notice the animals resembling cave art from Lascaux or Altamira.

Sunset in Mycenae

Hard at work on site

In the trenches

The sifting stations

Kolizeras restaurant, Mycenae

Citadel gate (Lion's Gate)

Fingerprints visible on pot sherd

Our hostel, the Belle Hellene

Among the things found:

Lots of pottery sherds
Three infant graves
Stone foundations
Geometric-era cups and bronze jewelry

Petra, Jordan

(This is one of the most beautiful places I know of. I have to see this place one day.)

treetart:

Nerd alert.

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Two Terra cotta cylinders describing the construction of Ninurta’s temple (God of war) via cuneiform symbols, ca. 2120 BCE, Girsu, Iraq. 56.50 cm long, 33 cm of diametre, Musée du Louvre.

averagearchaeologist:

Why do I feel like I hear this all the time at school? Oh right! Because of all the hippies…

Archaeological News: U.S troops killed in action have a last ally:

Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii — There is a skull here, hundreds of fragments of bones there. Table after table is lined with human remains. One holds a near-complete skeleton, another has hundreds of tiny pieces of bone that could come from many different people.

Prairie du Chien Chert (page is materials M-Z, so scroll down a bit for PDC entry)

Part 2: variety 2

The second variety of PDC is not as easily distinguished. It occasionally has a banding or grain, but this also occurs in Red River Chert. Because the distribution of these two materials does not overlap to a significant degree, they may still be distinguished based on the location of the site. The banding in this variety of PDC is contorted, somewhat like wood grain in a knot.

It’s not the easiest thing to see because of the color, but the flake in the second picture has a few vugs (little cavities in the rock) that are full of little quartz crystals. One is visible as a grey patch with some lighter spots on the right side of the flake, midway down the edge.

Panoramic view of the Lotus Mahal (by thiruvikraman) and details, ca. AD 1400. Hampi, India.

Sex, Beer & Politics: Riddles Reveal Life of Ancient Mesopotamians:

Millennia before modern-day Americans made fun of their politicians or cracked crude jokes over a cold one, people in ancient Mesopotamia were doing much the same thing.

The evidence of sex, politics and beer-drinking comes from a newly translated tablet, dating back more than 3,500 years,…

Hieropolis, Turkey

Tomb in north necropolis

““Archaeologists have this horrible habit of ruining their personal lives”-Professor at Berkeley”

My Life In Dirt, How My Hands Always Looked When My Grandmother Would Call Me Her “Earth Child”.

(More About Greece Leasing Hisorical and Archaeological...

Debt-Ridden Greece Hopes Ancient Sites Can Yield New Cash

Graffiti depicting graffiti removal by Banksy. Created in May...

Among the things found: Lots of pottery sherds Three infant...

Petra, Jordan (This is one of the most beautiful places I know...

I reblog more things from the archaeology blogs I follow than anything else.

Archaeology of Israel (Facebook Page)

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Two Terra cotta cylinders describing the construction of...

averagearchaeologist: Why do I feel like I hear this all the...

Archaeological News: U.S troops killed in action have a last ally

Prairie du Chien Chert (page is materials M-Z, so scroll down a...

Panoramic view of the Lotus Mahal (by thiruvikraman) and...

Sex, Beer & Politics: Riddles Reveal Life of Ancient Mesopotamians

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Hieropolis, Turkey Tomb in north necropolis

"Archaeologists have this horrible habit of ruining their personal lives”-Professor at Berkeley"

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My Life In Dirt, How My Hands Always Looked When My Grandmother...