Sew La Ti Embroidery [04/27/16] 

  • Heritage: Minoan storage jar smashed by falling tourist

    A Minoan storage jar on display at the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion managed to survive through the centuries until a tourist shattered it to pieces.The damaged pithos is seen (centre) in this file photo [Credit: Archaeological Museum of Herakleion]The tourist, aged 60, was walking past the ill-fated pithos when she tripped,…

  • Heritage: A new Zimbabwe site on the World Heritage List?

    Near the border with Botswana in the Shashi-Limpopo region lies Mapela, which is now an excavation site. The ruins of what is believed to have been a flourishing urban community for an astoundingly long period of time were first examined in the early 1960s. As a result of political developments in the country, which at that time w…

  • Central Asia: Scholars rush to save Mes Aynak

    Saving Mes Aynak, which was screened at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, last month, is the story of an imminent archaeological tragedy in Afghanistan that seems like a fait accompli.The director of Saving Mes Aynak, Brent Huffman, surveying a Buddhist stupa at the archaeological site [Credit: Sa…

  • East Asia: 800-year-old Buddhist statue of 'goddess with thousand hands' restored to former glory

    After four years of restoration, the Thousand-Hand Goddess of Mercy statue, which is regarded as the jewel of the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, will reopen to the public next month.An 800-year-old Buddhist statue will go on public display next month after being restored to its former glory [Credit: Imaginechina]A team of herita…

  • Southern Europe: US returns 25 looted artefacts to Italy

    The United States on Tuesday officially returned 25 artifacts looted over the decades from Italy, including Etruscan vases, 1st-century frescoes and precious books that ended up in U.S. museums, universities and private collections.A third century B.C. terracotta head, left, and a second century Roman bronze figure representing Ma…

  • Heritage: Social media and archaeology: A match not made in heaven

    Archaeologists are avid users of social media, as well as online crowd-based funding and content-sourcing tools--deploying them to save sites, sustain the historic environment and protect history, often in the face of government disinterest, 'austerity' and short-sighted cultural policy.It seems, however, that these social media a…

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