The Global Heritage Industry and
the Recession: Bucking the Trend?
As we go to press there is no doubt that the world is plunging into an unprecedented economic recession. For those of us who are fortunate enough to be working in the sphere of heritage there is cautious optimism to think that we may have bucked the trend.
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Unique Natufian Burial
Discovered in Israel
In the lower western Galilee region of Israel, an Israeli team lead by archaeologist Dr Leore Grosman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently unearthed an unusual female burial in the small cave of Hilazon Tachtit.
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Hilazon Tachtit Cave, Israel, site of the Natufian burial. Photo: Naftali Hilger/FLASH90.
 
Ancient Chariot Discovered
in Bulgaria
In November, working under the direction of Veselin Ignatov based at the Historical Museum in Nova Zagora, archaeologists discovered a well-preserved and lavishly ornamented bronze-plated wooden chariot. The discovery was made in an ancient Thracian tomb, near the village of Karanovo in south-eastern Bulgaria, and dates to the end of the 2nd century AD.
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Photo: Associated Press.
 
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PHAISTOS DISK
Following this Minerva sponsored event, we are pleased to make available some abstracts from papers associated with the conference. This content will remain freely available to our web users under our Special Focus section. Many thanks to all who contributed to the discussion and debate that made the event such a success. Click here to view the abstracts page.
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The Phaistos Disk
 
The Handbook of British Archaeology / Roy and Lesley Adkins & Victoria Leitch
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered / Peter S. Wells.
International Phaistos Disk Conference 2008 - Abstracts
Focus on Iraq - Looting the National Museum of Iraq / Dr Jerome M. Eisenberg
The following articles appear
in Volume 20 no.1  the
JAN/FEB 2009 issue of MINERVA
 
Buddhist Gandhara: Legends, Monasteries, and Paradise / Murray Eiland
Babylon: Between Myth and Reality / Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour
Beyond Babylon at the Met: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium BC / Jerome M. Eisenberg
Terracottas and Demons in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Donald M. Bailey
Report on the International Phaistos Disk Conference / Jerome M. Eisenberg
The Etruscans in Latium / Dalu Jones
Julius Caesar: The Man, the Deeds, the Myth / Dalu Jones
All in a Life’s Work: The Mosaics of Jordan / Mark Merrony
How the Mighty Fall: The Fate of Roman Emperors / David Miller

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Editor
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