“My Zeugma began on a train when my cellphone rang. It was the Californian philanthropist supporting our project at Butrint, Albania – he was calling way after midnight his time. Had I seen the front page of The New York Times about this Roman town being submerged by the waters of a new dam in […]
Welcome to our new blog series Readings in Mosaic Conservation, which presents key texts in mosaic conservation literature. To inaugurate the series we selected an article by Gaël de Guichen, honorary president of the ICCM and Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, and Roberto Nardi, ICCM president and director of the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica. […]
The 2013 issue 1/4 of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, edited by Ann E. Killebrew and Sandra A. Scham, presents a special Forum section devoted to the impact of armed conflict and revolution on archaeology in Libya, Egypt and Syria. The topic is still of extreme relevance today, and different cases of […]
Cyrene is one of the five enlisted UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Lybia. It was the most important Greek colony in the area, founded in the 7th century B.C. The remains spread over a large area, and present impressive structures such as the Greek Temple of Zeus and the Roman theatre. Since the beginning of the […]
Libya is one of the richest countries in the Mediterranean basin for archaeology and cultural heritage, with five enlisted UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The ancient Greco-Roman cities of Cyrene in the east, Sabratha and Leptis Magna in the west, have some of the best-preserved archaeological remains, presenting many amazing mosaics. The armed conflict that started […]