Ninety-Two Years Ago – 4 & 26 November 1922
Over ninety years ago, on 26 November 1922 to be exact, Howard Carter got the first glimpse of...
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Category: History of Archaeology
“A Museum Without a Mummy …”
“A museum without a mummy,” according to Antoine Vivenel, “is not a...
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Going Back to the Stone Age
One of my earliest memories starting out as a first year archaeology student at the University of...
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Maisons des Illustres
Last week and just in time for this weekend’s Journées du Patrimoine (heritage days) the...
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Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day, the 100th anniversary in fact. For the last hundred years this annual event has been celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and...
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