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| Editorial: London’s Winter of Cultural Content |
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This winter London is gorging itself on a series of fantastic archaeology exhibitions; you wait for one and then three come along. In addition to the long-anticipated ‘Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs’ and its 150 Egyptian treasures at the O2 Centre, ‘The First Emperor. China’s Terracotta Army’ has opened at the British Museum, having pre-sold 150,000 tickets. Advance publicity has been overwhelming due to media-hype saturation.
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Photo: Museum of the Terracotta Warriors & Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuang, Lintong. |
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| Colossal Statue of Hadrian Found at Sagalassos, Turkey |
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Seasonal excavations at the Graeco-Roman city of Sagalassos in south-central Turkey have routinely unearthed splendid remains of the classical past. The latest spectacular discovery is parts of an exquisite marble colossal statue of the emperor Hadrian (r. AD 117-138). The find turned up in the south-eastern area of the city’s main bath-house under excavation by a team directed by Dr Marc Waelkens from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
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Photo: courtesy of the Sagalassos Archaeological Project. |
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| Harrogate Viking Treasure Unveiled by the British Museum |
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Metal-detectorists David and Andrew Whelan have discovered a remarkable Viking hoard near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, one of the most important finds in Britain for over 150 years. The hoard contains a variety of precious metal objects: coins, ornaments, ingots, jewellery and hack-silver The most spectacular object is a gilt silver vessel of Carolingian Frankish origin from France, which depicts mythological creatures within floral medallions and dates to the first half of the 9th century.
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Photo: courtesy of the British Museum. |
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| Aztec Emperor Ahuizotl’s Tomb Discovered in Mexico City |
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Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists from the Museum of the Templo Mayor have made the astonishing discovery in Mexico City of four underground chambers and what appears to be the entrance to a subterranean tomb measuring 1.8 x 1.8m. The extraordinary discovery of a huge stone monolith above the tomb carved with a representation of Tlaltecuhtli, the Aztec god of the earth, suggests the tomb holds the burial of of Ahuizotl (r. 1486-1502), the greatest of the 11 Aztec kings.
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Photo: courtesy of Associated Press. |
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The following articles appear in the
NOV/DEC 2007
issue of MINERVA |
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| Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin: the Royal Tombs of the Scythia / Manfred Nawroth |
|  | | The New Rahim Irvani Gallery for Ancient Iran at the British Museum / St John Simpson |
| | | The New Weston Gallery of Roman Britain at the British Museum / Richard Hobbs |
| | | Resplendent Jewellery: Leiden’s Hidden Treasures / Ruurd Halbertsma |
| | | Italy & the J. Paul Getty Museum Antiquities Repatriation / Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. |
| | | Golden Thracia: Royal Tombs of Sliven, Bulgaria / Georgi Kitov |
| | | The Arundel & Pomfret Marbles in Oxford / Michael Vickers |
| | | The Gardens of Rome: Imperial Playgrounds of the Rich & Famous / Dalu Jones |
| | | Algeria: Numidians and Romano-Africans in a Forgotten Land / Roger Wilson |
| | | Between Heaven and Earth: ‘Stylite’ Archaeology / Lukas Schachner |
| | | Saracen Seas, Early Islam, and the Death of Rome / Sean Kingsley |
| | | Between Text & Territory: San Vincenzo Al Volturno / Richard Hodges |
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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
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