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Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Pompeii and Herculaneum: two ordinary cities with an extraordinary story

In AD 79, late in the year, two cities – Herculaneum and Pompeii – along with various small towns, villages, and farms in the south of Italy were wiped out in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius. This event ended the life of the cities, but preserved them to be rediscovered by archaeologists nearly 1,700 years later.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Secretele mumiilor egiptene. Mistere pastrate 3.000 de ani, descifrate cu ajutorul tomografului

Mai multe mumii egiptene au fost supuse unor teste inedite, cu un tomograf computerizat performant, care a sos la lumina unul din secretele cel mai bine pastrate al acestei civilizatii incredibile.

Sapte mumii de la British Museum au fost cercetate cu un tomograf, pentru a afla detalii despre viata lor, cum au murit si cum au fost imbalsamate.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ninive

NINIVE. Un oraş foarte important care a fost ultima capitală a Asiriei. Ruinele se văd şi astăzi pe malul Tigrului vis-a-vis de oraşul Mosul din partea de N a Iraqului şi sunt sub forma unor ridicaturi de pământ numite Kuyunjik şi Nabi Yunus.

I. Numele

Cuvântul ebr. nineweh (în gr. Nineue; iar în gr. clasică Ninos) este traducerea cuvântului de origine asiriană Ninua (în babiloniana veche Ninuwa), o transliterare a cuvântului sumerian Nina, care este şi mai vechi. Acesta este numele zeiţei Iştar, care se scria sub forma unui peşte încadrat. În ciuda comparaţiei pe care o fac unii cu cele ce s-au întâmplat cu Iona, după toate probabilităţile nu există nici o legătură între acest nume şi cuvântui ebraic nun, „peşte".

Friday, July 20, 2012

Stolen artefacts returned to Afghanistan by British Museum

The British Museum, helped by British police and the UK Border Force, has helped return hundreds of looted artefacts seized from smugglers to Afghanistan.

A total of 850 treasures have been repatriated, having been passed to the British Museum for safeguarding following their confiscation in Britain over the last two years.

Friday, July 6, 2012

British Museum vows to help regional collections through tough times

The British Museum has said that is loaning works to UK museums at an unprecedented level to help them weather waters that are likely to be choppy for at least five years.

Launching the museum's annual report, the museum's director, Neil MacGregor, spoke of "new kind of engagement" with museums across the UK to develop the sense of there being "one national collection, one community of scholarship".