#mortimer wheeler

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History programming doesn't have to be as bad as it is now. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Kenneth Clark and Professor David Starkey - The holy trinity of history broadcasting.

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Wheeler was holding a fragment of a Roman wine jar dug up at Arikamedu (Pondicherry), eighty miles down the coast. He took the overnight train and after a long, alcoholic breakfast at the town's French legation, went looking for Romans.

An inner room of the public library contained three or four museum cases. I strode hopefully forward, and, removing the dust with an excessively sweaty arm, peered into them. For the second time within the month, my eyes started in their sockets. Crowded together were fragments of a dozen more Roman amphorae [wine jars], part of a Roman lamp, a Roman intaglio [cameo brooch], a mass of Indian material – potsherds, beads, terracottas – and several fragments of a red-glazed ware no one trained in the school of classical archaeology could mistake.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[alessandroiiidimacedonia]

Appena uscito: "L'incendio di Persepoli. L'avventura di Alessandro in Asia" di Mortimer Wheeler

Appena uscito: “L’incendio di Persepoli. L’avventura di Alessandro in Asia” di Mortimer Wheeler

Buongiorno a tutti sono Elena e grazie di essere su Alessandro III di Macedonia: blog su Alessandro Magno e l’Ellenismo. Oggi vi segnalo un’uscita recente che ho scoperto ieri e sono contenta sia avvenuta: L’incendio di Persepoli. L’avventura di Alessandro in Asia di Mortimer Wheeler Res Gestae Edizioni, 2022 ISBN: 978-8866973799, 180 pp. L’avventura di Alessandro Magno, il più amato di…

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El anillo Vyne, el objeto robado en el siglo IV que pudo inspirar a Tolkien

El anillo Vyne, el objeto robado en el siglo IV que pudo inspirar a Tolkien

El anillo Vyne, el objeto robado en el siglo IV que pudo inspirar a Tolkien ¿Se inspiró J.R.R. Tolkien en una pieza arqueológica auténtica para concebir ese Anillo Único que es el leiv motiv de sus novelas? Él nunca dijo nada al respecto, por lo que resulta imposible saberlo con certeza. No obstante en 1929, es decir, ocho años antes de escribir el primer libro en que aparece el objeto, El…

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Wikipedia article of the day for December 23, 2017 Wikipedia article of the day is Mortimer Wheeler. Check it out: from Blogger via IFTTT

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Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) was a British archaeologist and army officer who served as Director of the National Museum of Wales and the London Museum, headed the Archaeological Survey of India, and wrote twenty-four books on archaeology. He argued that excavation and the recording of stratigraphic context required an increasingly scientific and methodical approach, developing the […] from Mortimer Wheeler

[rjbailey]

Wikipedia article of the day for December 23, 2017 -- Mortimer Wheeler

The Wikipedia article of the day for December 23, 2017 is Mortimer Wheeler. Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) was a British archaeologist and army officer who served as Director of the National Museum of Wales and the London Museum, headed the Archaeological Survey of India, and wrote twenty-four books on archaeology. He argued that excavation and the recording of stratigraphic context required an increasingly scientific and methodical approach, developing the "Wheeler Method". In 1934, he established the Institute of Archaeology as part of the federal University of London, becoming its Honorary Director and overseeing excavations of the Roman sites at Lydney Park and Verulamium and the Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle. During World War II, he rose to the rank of brigadier, serving in the North African Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy. In India, he oversaw excavations of sites at Harappa, Arikamedu, and Brahmagiri. In later life, his popular books, cruise ship lectures, and appearances on radio and television, particularly the BBC series Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, helped to bring archaeology to a mass audience. Appointed Honorary Secretary of the British Academy, he raised large sums of money for archaeological projects.