Topic: Archaeology
LONDINIUM (Reuters) - Finding London's Roman ruins amid the tangled network of streets and lanes that make up the ancient part of a contemporary city is a challenge for even the most experienced urban explorer.Now, a free mobile application for the iPhone, ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Striking Greek taxi drivers tried to placate angry tourists Tuesday, giving them a free ride into the western town of Patras and letting them enter a major archaeological site on the island of Crete without paying.The protesters have been ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return to Cairo 19 artifacts dating back to the time of ancient Egypt's teenage king Tutankhamen, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday.Egypt has been pushing for the repatriation ...
(Reuters Life!) - An early prehistoric hearth has been discovered on the planned construction site for a branch of major British supermarket chain Sainsbury's.The charcoal remains, excavated from the site in Nairn, a town in the Scottish Highlands, date back to the ...
Opponents of a Canadian gold mine project at an ancient Roman site in Transylvania threatened to sue authorities on Monday after Romania's culture ministry issued a permit for the mine."We will go to court to contest the archaeological discharge certificate" delivered by ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement with Greece on Sunday aimed at clamping down on the import and sale of stolen archaeological artefacts.Under the new agreement, the import of protected archaeological artefacts will be illegal if they have not ...
Bucharest issued an archaeological discharge certificate for an area in northwestern Romania where a Canadian firm wants to establish a gold mine, the culture ministry said Friday.The decision was criticized by groups defending the patrimony of the region's ancient Roman site."The department ...
Thieves and art dealers are the usual suspects, but mildew and flashbulbs are just as dangerous for some of the Philippines' beleaguered cultural treasures.From a 30,000-year-old skull fragment of one of its first human inhabitants to imposing churches built during Spanish colonial ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ancient bead necklace, terra cotta tablets from ancient Babylonia depicting Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, and posters of deposed leader Saddam Hussein were among artifacts that U.S. officials returned to the Iraqi government on Thursday.The repatriation ...
KNOSSOS, Greece (Reuters) - Rania Pelekanaki is anxious about everything.The 43-year-old mother of four worries about her husband's job, about her own salary, about her unemployed eldest son, about higher food prices -- in short, about the future."It's a mess," she says. ...
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