Sentences with phrase «good archaeological museum»

The town is also home to a good archaeological museum, which contains finds from Gournia, a Minoan settlement located about 10 miles from Ierapetra, and other sites.

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Like all living museums in the sea, the Kidd shipwreck protects biological resources — most notably, relatively large populations of elkhorn and staghorn coral — as well as archaeological resources.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's dirMuseum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's dirmuseum's director.

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

In a statement yesterday, Hawass said that the army was now protecting all 24 national museums, including the Egyptian Museum, the Coptic Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, as well as all the major archaeological sites, including Luxor, Aswan, Saqqara and the pyramids of Giza.

Cairo has been less - heavily touristed since the political revolutionary movements of the past decade, which means that bold travelers can find some of the best hotel bargains in the world right here, not to mention shorter lines at the city's exquisite museums and amazing archaeological sites.

Thassos has a striking hilltop Byzantine monastery, an outstanding archaeological museum and an ancient Greek temple at Alyki as well as great beaches.

The town is home to a Medieval Museum, a castle and other archaeological sites, as well as a sculpture park for all of your cultural needs.

The city offers innumerable attractions, from wandering along its well - preserved colonial streets, to visiting Inca archaeological sites, attending Quechua masses in the Sacred Valley, visiting the very interesting Inca Museum, or just enjoying its rich gastronomy and always - active nightlife.

Day 3 Tour of Ica including a visit to the regional museum to admire archaeological remains as well as potteries, textiles and mummies.

Beyond the archaeological sites and museums which are undoubtedly of great beauty and significance, the traveler has the opportunity to enjoy everyday life, in the big bustling cities as well as the smaller villages and towns where traditional Greek hospitality is alive and well and goes along way in defining Greek character.

With ious entertainment options, as well as golf courses, spas, beautiful swimming locations, archaeological zones, museums, nature parks, bars and nightclubs you will never be bored.

Amongst other works, the exhibition also includes a new commission The Ballad of Special Ops Cody (2017) as well as his well - known «The invisible enemy should not exist» (2007 — ongoing) a series of sculptures that represent an attempt to reconstruct archaeological artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq, following the 2003 US invasion.

Also of note here were the handsome series of abstract collages, «Time Memory» (2010 --RRB-, which articulate the archaeological sense of accumulated time that informs the iconic «Scrapbooks» project (1977 --RRB- included in this year's Venice Biennale, as well as the three - story high structural work in the museum's atrium, Time Memory / BIBAI (2013), with pale - blue neon highlights accentuating the frame of a rusting bowling - pin - shaped tower.