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Daniele Valeriani

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Submerged prehistoric archaeology, July 2017

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Medusa 1597

Caravaggio

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REST IN PEACE, RAY HARRYHAUSEN.

Harryhausen was a fantastic model builder, creating details that would remain convincing in tight close-ups.  On top of that everything was fully poseable.

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Harryhausen designed and animated Medusa, and credited Janet Stevens with the physical sculpting from his drawings.  She had worked on The Empire Strikes Back the year before.

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Bronze Snake

Greek Classical Period about 400 BCE

“The votive snake is shown as if extended to strike.”

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Archaeologist problems: Winter blues.

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Guys this post has blown up like crazy and I feel that I should add that the original creator of this was one of my undergrad profs as well as my thesis supervisor. This is the kind of humour we got all through the field school I took from him, and it was very entertaining!

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Kazakh tribe, Mongolia.

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Fountain in the court of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo, Egypt, March 3, 1862. Photo by Francis Bedford. (Royal Collection Trust)

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Old Ahlat city excavations begin

Excavation work has begun in the Ahlat Seljuk graveyard, considered the “Orkhon Inscriptions of Anatolia,” in the eastern province of Bitlis. It is known as the world’s largest Turkish-Islam graveyard.

The site has 8,203 gravestones, the tallest of which are some 4.5 meters, and many are artifacts decorated with inscriptions and motifs.

The Old Ahlat City excavations this year are headed by Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYU) Professor Recai Karahan.

Karahan said fixing the broken stones and cleaning away the lichens in the graveyard were their priority. He said 25 people, including 10 workers, 10 restorers and a five-person excavation team, had started working. “Some seven-eight stones have been cleaned of lichen so far,” he said. Read more.

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The Ballad of Hua Mulan: The Legendary Warrior Woman Who Brought Hope to China

Hua Mulan is one of the most legendary women of ancient China. Her story was originally described in a poem known as the Ballad of Mulan. There is no archaeological proof that she was a real person, but tales of her heroic actions are told in ancient text. Although her story was documented in literature only, it’s also taught in today’s Chinese schools.

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China to increase protection of immovable cultural relics

BEIJING  – The State Administration of Cultural Heritage plans to step up preservation of immovable cultural relics, amid rapid urbanization.

“Immovable cultural relics should be avoided as much as possible in the choosing of construction sites,” according to a circular issued by the administration.

The circular clarified procedures for the removal of immovable cultural relic status, and said that if such cultural relics were destroyed by natural disasters or construction activity, authorities should review and establish whether they still had heritage value. Read more.

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A German man before he went to the Ottoman empire and when he returned. 1908

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China to increase protection of immovable cultural relics

BEIJING  – The State Administration of Cultural Heritage plans to step up preservation of immovable cultural relics, amid rapid urbanization.

“Immovable cultural relics should be avoided as much as possible in the choosing of construction sites,” according to a circular issued by the administration.

The circular clarified procedures for the removal of immovable cultural relic status, and said that if such cultural relics were destroyed by natural disasters or construction activity, authorities should review and establish whether they still had heritage value. Read more.

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A German man before he went to the Ottoman empire and when he returned. 1908

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Charred turnip dinner from 400 years ago throws new light on conquest of Siberia

The turnip, pictured here, was ready for cooking in a large clay pot when the log house caught fire and was quickly destroyed in flames, say archaeologists.

Yet the meal was preserved, and nearby in an excavation of historical importance concerning Siberia’s development were found pieces of Venetian glassware, along with the remains of women’s knitted stockings and footwear.

Tara - in Omsk region - is significant because it was one of the earliest settlements by Russians as they went eastward, founded in 1594 by Prince Andrey Eletsky.

The remains of the turnip dinner come from around this time, and the archaeological explorations now underway represent the chance to understand the early pioneers, among them political and also criminal exiles, who began the modern development of Siberia. Read more.

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Largest Iron Age monument found at Skipsea Castle

The largest Iron Age earthwork in Britain has been identified at the former site of a Norman castle.

The mound at Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire is 278ft (85m) in diameter and 42ft (13m) high.

It was thought to be part of a Norman motte and bailey dating from 1086 but archaeological analysis of soil from its core showed it is 2,500 years old.

Dr Jim Leary, from the University of Reading, said: “We have a pristine, untouched, Iron Age monument”.

Dr Leary, who led the excavation of the site near Bridlington, added: “It’s the largest Iron Age mound in Britain and there it was hiding from us in plain sight.”

Further research is now being planned to establish the purpose and use of the mound.

“The key question now is what was this mound used for?” Dr Leary said. Read more.