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Gay icon, pacifist, and culture vulture is hardly how you would expect the man who gave Britain a ‘security fence’ to keep Romans away from tribal Scottish trouble-makers to be described. Yet this is the 21st-century Hadrian who will be dusted down for the British Museum’s next blockbuster from 24 July to 26 October.
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Chinese Architectural
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An unusual and challenging exhibition organised in Brussels at the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, ‘La Chine Sous Toit’ (China Under the Roof) is an important and visually fascinating exhibition that brings together 177 artefacts from the rich storage rooms of the Henan Provincial Museum, discovered in tombs and sites in this Chinese province over the last 50 years.
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New Survey Reveals
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A new geophysical survey sponsored by the British Academy has produced a complete plan of the walled Roman town of Venta Icenorum, modern Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk. Although Caistor is one of only three major Roman towns in Britain that does not lie directly under a modern town, relatively little is known about the site.
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An Ivory Throne
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An Italian team of archaeologists directed by Maria Paola Guidobaldi, archaeological superintendent for Pompeii, has made the extraordinary discovery of an elaborately decorated wood and ivory throne. The throne, discovered in several pieces and presently undergoing careful restoration, is not the first example of wooden furniture discovered in the Bay of Naples.
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The following articles appear in
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MAR/APR 2008 issue of MINERVA
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| Nubian Kingdoms of the Nile from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston / Peter Lacovara |
|  | | The Phoenicians in Paris / Elisabeth Fontan & Glenn Markoe |
| | | The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani / Jerome M. Eisenberg |
| | | The Art of Death: Roman Sarcophagi in Arles / Mark Merrony |
| | | Alma-Tadema: Nostalgia for the Antique / Dalu Jones |
| | | The Proto-Elamite Guennol Lioness / Jerome M. Eisenberg |
| | | The Autumn 2007 Antiquities Sales / Jerome M. Eisenberg |
| | | Everyday Life in Ancient Cyprus / Christopher Follett |
| | | Skiringssal - A Viking Emporium in Norway? / Richard Hodges |
| | | Sir William ‘Rapid’ Gell: Royal Confidant and Classical Archaeologist / Charles Plouviez |
| | | Raiders of the Lost Drum: Archaeology as a Brand / Sean Kingsley |
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Founder, Editor-In-Chief & Publisher
Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Dr Sean Kingsley
Editor
Dr Mark Merrony
Consulting Editor
Peter A. Clayton |
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