home news & events book reviews archive contact & info subscribe Editorial The start of another year is the perfect moment to stop chasing our tails and mull over the state of Earth’s cultural heritage. In this issue, Minerva juxtaposes a disheartening review of China’s handling of archaeology found during preparations for this year’s Beijing Olympics with an extremely positive summary of plans to rescue heritage for the London 2012 Olympics. full feature link Wall painting of Apollo, Pompeii, Italy, AD 62-79. Photo: Peter Harholdt; Musée du Louvre/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.   Stone Age Massacre - Crime Scene Talheim Amongst the ancient remains of the Middle Neckar region of south-west Germany, one striking prehistoric event stands out. That episode was the mass death of 34 people over 7000 years ago in the Neolithic period, who unceremoniously suffered genocide before being thrown into a pit. full feature link Reconstructed head of a man from Neolithic Talheim, Germany. Photo: Städtische Museen Heilbronn.   Colourful Classical Gods at Harvard Modernity’s image of ancient marble statues as pure and noble is without doubt the most extreme misrepresentation in classical art. This mental myopia is now being challenged by the groundbreaking travelling exhibition, ‘Gods in Color; Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity’ at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. full feature link Reconstructions of the pediment group from the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, 490-480 BC. Photo: Stiftung Archäologie, Munich.   Digging Mount Zion in Jerusalem New excavations directed by Professors Shimon Gibson and James Tabor of the University of North Carolina are to commence in Jerusalem in March 2008 in the ‘Upper City’, the traditional Mount Zion mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius as the last stronghold against the Roman conquest of the city in AD 70. full feature link Wall painting from the House of Caiaphas. Photo: Shimon Gibson.   India: The Ancient Past A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200 / Burjor Avari Etruscan Myths / Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers & Wives of the Caesars / Jasper Burns Gerasa and the Decapolis. A ‘Virtual Island’ in Northwest Jordan / David Kennedy Portland Vase Interpretations / Dr Jerome M. Eisenberg International Phaistos Disk Conference 2008 - Abstracts Focus on Iraq - Looting the National Museum of Iraq / Dr Jerome M. Eisenberg The following articles appear in the JAN/FEB 2008 issue of MINERVA   Gifts for the Gods: Egyptian Metal Statuary at the Metropolitan Museum / Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. The First Emperor’s Terracotta Army in London / Hiromi Kinoshita The Search for Cosmic Perfection: Imperial Capitals of China / Arthur Cotterell ‘Three Faces of Monotheism’ at the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem / Joan Goodnick Westenholz The Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage / Hamdan Taha British Groundbreakers in the Archaeology of the Holy Land / Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg Phoenician Decorated Bowls: The Art of Diplomatic Exchange / Glenn Markoe Beijing and the Olympic Games: Sacrificing the Past / Filippo Salviati The London 2012 Olympics / Nick Bateman INRAP 2007 - Preventive Archaeology in France / Sean Kingsley Killer Tsunamis in Constantinople: 8000 Years of Istanbul / Sean Kingsley An Ethical Dilemma: A Disputed Cuirass in Leiden’s National Museum of Antiquities / Steph Scholten The Future of the Past: Collecting Antiquities in the 21st Century / Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Cosmopolitan Alexandria: From the Egyptian to the Baroque / Mark Merrony Editor-in-Chief Dr Mark Merrony Editor Dr James Beresford Publisher Myles Poulton Managing Editor Sophie Mackenzie Art Director Nick Riggall Designers Lyndon Williams Debra Foster Editorial Associate Georgina Read   website by Claverton Media © MINERVA 2010. no reproduction without publisher's consent
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