Digs, Discoveries, Travel, Exploration
Greek archaeologists picketed a recent auction of antiquities at a London auction house in protest against cuts to state heritage services in Greece. Ten demonstrators stood outside Christie’s during the sale of Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian, and Roman artefacts, holding placards with images of shattered museum cases.
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CWA was founded in 2003 as a sister magazine to Current Archaeology which, since 1967, has been reporting on the latest discoveries in British archaeology.
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The discovery of an intact Moche royal tomb was like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. A gang of impoverished local looters entered one of three pyramids at Huaca Rajada, Sipan, a major Moche site near the Peruvian coast.
The remains – remarkably unprepossessing amid the spectacular ruins of classical Rome all around – comprise postholes, wall-slots, and drainage gullies, defining three small structures.
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