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January 26, 2012 0 Comments

Liverpool’s world heritage waterfront faces ‘irreversible damage’, report says

Unesco delegation says skyscraper proposal will result in ‘serious loss of historic authenticity’

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January 26, 2012 0 Comments

Museums hear fate after 29 bid for share of £60m Renaissance money

Winners include Brighton, Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge. Losers include Sheffield which warns of job losses and a fall in exhibition standards

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January 23, 2012 0 Comments

How Birdsong creates a replica of first world war’s tunnels

Expert archaeologist helped drama producers make exact model of underground network

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January 21, 2012 0 Comments

Greece’s ancient sites to play starring role in recovery

Archaeological treasures including the Acropolis and the temple of Delphi will be available as backdrops for filming and photographic shoots for as little as €1,600 (£1,339) a day

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January 19, 2012 0 Comments

Temple of Mithras comes home

Construction work forces return of remains of Roman temple to the god Mithras to original London home after 58 years

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January 13, 2012 0 Comments

Rome’s Colosseum restoration sparks inquiries into contract

Italy’s most visited monument, the Roman Colosseum, is suffering from “about 3,000 lesions”, a government minister said last year. Sometimes, bits fall off, as did a chunk dislodged by a pigeon on Christmas Eve.

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January 12, 2012 0 Comments

US diving crew finds wreck of British submarine used in second world war

HMS Olympus struck a mine off the coast of Malta as it tried to evade German and Italian warships on 8 May 1942 – Archaeology News Press Release

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January 11, 2012 0 Comments

Home-made memorial risks damage to Hadrian’s Wall

National Trust appeals for people to get in touch and discuss ideas, after DIY plaque leaves resin on the 2000-year-old stones

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January 5, 2012 0 Comments

Porn yesterday: Roman brothel tokens and the rise of erotic art

Bronze discs depicting sex acts, like the one discovered in London, were used to hire prostitutes – and directly led to the birth of pornography during the Renaissance HeritageDaily Archaeology News Press Release – News for Archeology by Archaeologists

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January 5, 2012 0 Comments

Israeli companies can profit from West Bank resources, court rules

Supreme court says international law does not fit the ‘reality on the ground’ of long-term Israeli occupation – HeritageDaily Archaeology News Press Release – News for Archeology by Archaeologists

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January 3, 2012 0 Comments

British Museum canters through 5,000 years of equine history

A celebration of the horse – from newly excavated Saudi Arabian rock carvings to Victorian London’s dung dilemma

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January 3, 2012 0 Comments

China’s tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history

Bulldozers and dynamite used to strip priceless artefacts from remote sites, with booty sold on to wealthy collectors

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December 28, 2011 0 Comments

Weatherwatch: Snowshoes date back to Asia over 6,000 years ago

Kate Ravilious looks at the invention of shoes that helped people cross the snow

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December 25, 2011 0 Comments

Napoleon Bonaparte and Egypt’s lost scrolls

The recent destruction of an historic document in Cairo offers a stark warning that Egypt’s art and history is under threat

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December 20, 2011 0 Comments

Wedgwood Museum faces selloff to pay £134m pension debt after court ruling

Museum collection can now be sold to meet deficit of Wedgwood Potteries, even though the two separated half a century ago

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December 20, 2011 0 Comments

Viñoly brought in as Chelsea looks at move to Battersea power station

Architect behind latest failed redesign for London’s Battersea power station hired as creative brain behind developer Mike Hussey’s plan for stadium for Chelsea football club at the site

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December 20, 2011 0 Comments

Lloyd’s building joins Grade I elite at tender age of 25

Heritage minister’s decision puts Richard Rogers’s hi-tech design in the top 2.5% of all listed buildings

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December 18, 2011 0 Comments

Glastonbury tankard returns home

Lavishly carved 16th-century oak cup was given to Arundells of Wardour for safekeeping during dissolution of monasteries

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December 13, 2011 0 Comments

Art treasures leave UK as museums struggle to mount competitive bids

Lack of funds and public money leave institutions unable to stop exodus of works and artefacts worth £65m, including Turner masterpiece

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December 13, 2011 0 Comments

Pendle witches pogrom haunts water workers after find of mummified cat

Jacobean era’s infamous witchcraft trials recalled after reservoir repairs at Pendle Hill dig out cottage with bricked-up feline

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December 13, 2011 0 Comments

Cambridge gives Newton papers to the world

Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library.

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December 8, 2011 0 Comments

Wessex Archaeology Help Injured Servicemen And Women

Staff in Wessex Archaeology’s Salisbury office are taking part in a pilot project entitled ‘Operation Nightingale’ to explore the potential of using archaeology as a tool in the rehabilitation of injured servicemen and women.