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Children’s pack: Ancient Rome
The new DK Eyewitness Expert Guide to “Ancient Rome” has just been published in the US (the UK will have to wait until winter for a later release). It is just the sort of pack that I’d have wanted as a child: books, models, maps, fact cards and a CD of clipart. I mention it on this blog because one of the books has a section on Herculaneum thanks to a contribution by the Herculaneum … Read entire article »
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Cinarchea archaeological film festival: Herculaneum wins!
Cinarchea took place last week – the international archaeological film festival hosted by the University of Kiel, Germany. The Großer Preis was awarded to Herculaneum, diaries of dark and light, a documentary based around Amedeo Maiuri’s career excavating Herculaneum which was supported by the Herculaneum Centre. Congratulations to film maker Marcellino de Baggis!A clip is available to watch here. … Read entire article »
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Samnite House reopens!
The Herculaneum Conservation Project is trying to put up site panels to explain to visitors what they are doing and why some areas are closed. These are two new examples that have gone up this week: Herculaneum’s Samnite House is open for visitors again. The house was shut for a period as water leaking through the roof had damaged not only the roof structure but also wall and floor decorations. The Herculaneum Conservation Project team made … Read entire article »
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Event: Pavimenti a Ercolano
Bit late notice, but I’ve seen that there is an event on at Herculaneum today: Pavimenti a Ercolanodi Maria Stella Pisapiagiovedì 8 aprile 2010 ore 15.30: Ercolano, ScaviPer informazioni e prenotazioni 081 4422149 This is just one of a cycle of events organised by the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. For more on the Incontri di Archeologia see their website. The next event of interest to blog readers will be: Note di vita pompeiana attraverso i Giornali di … Read entire article »
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Blogging other blogs
We’ve got into a vicious blogging circle! Mary Beard’s latest post for A Don’s Life mentions her recent visit to Herculaneum’s sewers (sorry that I gave the game away Mary!) … Read entire article »
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Book: The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
You can now advance order copies of The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum: Archaeology, Reception and Digital Reconstruction (Sozomena Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts) by Mantha Zarmakoupi (Freie Universitat Berlin) (Llh, 2010) $152.00. The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Graeco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed … Read entire article »
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Blogging the BBC
Just spotted filming on location: Mary Beard and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill with the production company Lion TV. Well, hardly spotted as I was helping make sure that things worked out for them at Herculaneum, but couldn’t resist blogging about a fellow blogger. You can follow Mary’s time filming in the Vesuvian area all this week on her blog A Don’s Life, and the BBC should be showing the new documentary in late autumn in the UK at … Read entire article »
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NetVibes page for Pompeii and Herculaneum
Check out John Larkin’s new NetVibes page of resources on Pompeii and Herculaneum. This is an excellent collection of links and images designed for teachers – but useful to us all. He describes the site here. … Read entire article »
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Have you got photos of Herculaneum?
The Herculaneum Conservation Project has been active at Herculaneum since 2001, with the aim of supporting the heritage authority to conserve and enhance the archaeological site of Herculaneum, with a team of archaeologists, architects, conservators and other specialists. As in any project, we have found archive photos to be an enormous resource for understanding more about the archaeology. But not only: we have increasingly found that people’s old holiday photos of Herculaneum offer us a whole … Read entire article »
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Third Herculaneum Conference
The Friends of Herculaneum Society is holding its Third Herculaneum Conference 11-13 June 2010 in Ercolano, Italy. The programme includes talks by the new Director of the British School at Rome, Prof. Christopher Smith, and by the immediate past Director, Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; presentations by members of the Herculaneum Conservation project; site visit (including the Villa of the Papyri and the new boat museum) with Dr Maria Paola Guidobaldi, Director of Excavations, and Dr Domenico … Read entire article »
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