Masks worn by actors have been unearthed at the theater in the ancient city of Myra, which is located on the southern coast of Turkey. Excavators also found a family monument at the site.
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Fieldnotes: News Briefs
Brief news items on the AIA professional membership and newsworthy activities in the field, including links to recently published institutional press releases or articles in the media.
Today’s Zaman
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August 29, 2011
BBC News
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August 29, 2011
Horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago on the Arabian Peninsula, claims an announcement made by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities.
Press Release
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August 15, 2011
Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI), a San Francisco-based non-profit, is offering free training in high-tech imaging to local and national museum professionals at a series of workshops throughout the US. Museum staff use the imaging techniques to create beautiful, high-resolution, interactive media that reveal never-before-seen surface details and enhance research efforts and public education programs.
KLCC.org
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July 5, 2011
Two archaeologists in Oregon invested in a commercial building, only to find that the back parking lot was built upon a trash pit once used by Chinese immigrants.
Fox News Latino
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June 29, 2011
The remains of 116 people have been uncovered in a ninth-century cemetery in southeastern Mexico. “The 66 burials in urns correspond to individuals belonging to the Mayan elite and the other 50 – placed in different positions around them – to their companions in the afterlife,” said Ricardo Armijo of the National Anthropology and History Institute.
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