As-salamu alaykum! Today we had a very nice surprise in Ur. Our good friend Dr Mufid Al-Jazairi, Chairman of the Iraqi Cultural Support Association, and former Minister of Culture, came to visit us in our house of the Mission. [...]
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ottobre 4th, 2013 - 15:17 § in Scavo e dintorni
The Visit of an Old Friend. La visita di un vecchio amico
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 24th, 2013 - 15:33 § in Scavo e dintorni
Visit of the Dhi-Qar Region Governor. Visita del Governatore della Regione del Dhi-Qar
As-salamu alaykum! Today we had a wonderful surprise: while we were scraping the surface of our area in the southern part of the Tell (we’ll talk about it in another post), we received the visit of the Dhi-Qar Region new Governor, Dr Yahya al-Nasiri. We had the possibility to show our [...]
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… [...]