The first major #KulturGutRetter exercise has started yesterday in Demerthin, Germany. Over 100 members of the Cultural Heritage Response Unit (#CHRU) & project members train the salvage, documentation & #emergency#conservation of #culturalheritage after catastrophic events.
#Assur, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta and 200 other sites in #Iraq are threatened by #erosion, flood and the effects of the Makhul dam project. Archaeologists @dai_weltweit document sites & conduct building protection measures, as Felix Wolter & @SimoneMuehl presented at #Denkmal2022
#Ukraine-Hilfe: 10 t Verpackungs- & Hilfsmaterial d. #KulturGutRetter-Logistiknetzes von DAI, @THWLeitung & Partnern konnten durch #HERI Initiative an 13 ukrain. Kulturinstitutionen verteilt werden:
https://t.co/1KvJkssiZ5
@AuswaertigesAmt@AA_Kultur unterstützt d. Lieferungen.
Logistiknetz für Hilfslieferungen zum Schutz ukrainischen Kulturguts durch das DAI & die #KulturGutRetter (KGR), gemeinsam mit den KGR-Partnern @THWLeitung & #RGZM & weiteren Kulturinstitutionen etabliert. @AuswaertigesAmt unterstützt die Hilfslieferungen https://t.co/dI5tMUpelr
What a find! - An almost completely preserved 4,000-year-old ancient #boat has been documented and recovered near #Uruk during recent field work of Iraq's State Board of Antiquities & our #Orient_DAI Department's #IraqiGermanMission:
https://t.co/GiUL1pRVjz
Virtueller Museumsbesuch:
Die 2013 von #Orient_DAI, Vorderasiatischem Museum Berlin, Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftung REM & Dt. Orient-Gesellschaft entwickelte Ausstellung "#Uruk - 5000 Jahre #Megacity" kann nun in einer virtuellen Tour erneut besucht werden:
https://t.co/IFMfjMcRMP
Find the complete publication 'Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times & Spaces in Dialogue – Vol. 1' (Broadening Horizons 6) ed. Christian W. Hess & Federico Manuelli @6_horizons#openaccess@Archaeopress here 👇Thank you to our great editors!
https://t.co/WVdpHVJu1s
What happens if an archaeologist & a herpetologist brew beer together? Right, they come up with ideas how to combine their scientific work. The result: A herpetological approach to the magico-medical use of frogs & frog-amulets in Mesopotamia by @CarolinDittrich @mfnberlin & me.