Medieval History
From Diane Brisco via Ansax and Celia Chazelle via EMF:
> A BBC report - with great pictures - of a new exhibition of Merovingian
> artefacts seized by Soviet forces in Germany at the close of WW II:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6445989.stm
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Medieval History
An Interesting Piece on Merovingian Artefacts
From Diane Brisco via Ansax and Celia Chazelle via EMF:
> A BBC report - with great pictures - of a new exhibition of Merovingian
> artefacts seized by Soviet forces in Germany at the close of WW II:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6445989.stm
- Researchers Look To Save Deteriorating Viking Treasures Of Oseberg
Conservation experts in Norway are conducting tests to see if a solution can be found on how to save important archaeological finds from the Viking Age that were discovered in Oseberg in 1904. Researchers from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo,...
- Byzantine Bother: Artifacts Back In German Museum After Decades
A Berlin museum is celebrating the return of dozens of Byzantine artifacts, which spent years in Soviet Russia after World War Two. Some date back as far as the 4th century ? yet it is their recent history that reads like a real detective story. By the...
- Staffordshire Hoard Is Coming To America
More than one hundred artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard ? the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered ? will be displayed in Washington D.C. later this year. The exhibition, called ?Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from...
- Catching Up On Some Posts
The following (or in this case I suppose are preceding) are catch up posts: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The End of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse, the Rise of the Franks, and the 'Beginning of France': A Symposium on the Occasion of the 1500th Anniversary...
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