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ottobre 6th, 2013 - 18:00 § in Iraq

Don’t Waste Your Bread…. Non sprecare il tuo pane…

 As-salamu alaykum! During our flight to Basrah we watched an advertisement made by Turkish Airlines against the Waste of Bread.  [...]

ottobre 1st, 2013 - 18:42 § in Scavo e dintorni

A new guest in the house… Un nuovo ospite a casa…

 As-salamu alaykum! This post is specially addressed to Jane, Robert  and all our Friends digging in Tell Khayber: we have a new guest in the house as you can see… But Abu Atheer makes us sure that he will leave very soon…  [...]

settembre 30th, 2013 - 19:30 § in Scavo e dintorni

Just a few shards… Solo qualche coccio

 As-salamu alaikum! We are sorry not to have posted anything in this three days… but, as you can see, we are quite busy…  [...]

settembre 26th, 2013 - 16:38 § in Scavo e dintorni

Desert Storm…Tempesta di sabbia…

 As-salamu alaykum! Here you find some picture of the morning spent on the site during a desert storm… and of our return to Ur at the end of the work.  [...]

settembre 25th, 2013 - 18:31 § in Scavo e dintorni

What we’ll do in this campaign… Cosa faremo in questa campagna…

 As-salamu alaykum! Our third day of excavation is over… our project for this year is to understand better the nature of the building discovered in the southern area (Area 1) and to restart the diggings in the northern trench (Trench 2), which was left over during the second campaign. &nb[...]

settembre 22nd, 2013 - 20:33 § in Iraq

Driving in Ur… Guidando ad Ur

 After the second day of cleaning, a wonderful afternoon driving in Ur… Dopo il secondo giorno di pulizia, un bellissimo pomeriggio guidando ad  Ur…  [...]

settembre 21st, 2013 - 16:55 § in Scavo e dintorni

Cleaning… Pulizia…

 Our first day of work!  Il nostro primo giorno di lavoro!  [...]

settembre 20th, 2013 - 17:30 § in Scavo e dintorni

Return to Abu Tbeirah! Ritorno ad Abu Tbeirah!

 As-salamu alaykum! Yesterday we returned on the site in order to see the situation of the trenches and to organize the topographic work of Saturday (we searched for the bench marks that are necessary to open the new squares for the excavation of this campaign).  [...]

settembre 19th, 2013 - 16:25 § in Scavo e dintorni

A new film on Abu Tbeirah. Un nuovo film su Abu Tbeirah.

  As-salamu alaykum! Here is a new brief documentary film on the excavations at Abu Tbeirah!  [...]

settembre 18th, 2013 - 15:29 § in Scavo e dintorni

Who left the oven on? Chi ha lasciato il forno acceso?

       As-salamu alaykum! One of the most striking characteristic of our first days in Iraq is certainly the heat…  [...]