For its part, Komotini offers an intriguing archaeological museum and Byzantine and Ottoman structures.
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Matsuura called for protection of the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad and the Mosul Museum and other institutions in the Baghdad region.
The plea came after looters ransacked the National Archaeological Museum of Baghdad soon after U.S.-led military forces toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The glittering burial hoard from Mycenae gold cups, jewellery, bronze swords with gold-plated hilts and hundreds of ornaments is still a crowd-puller at the Athens archaeological museum.
The Chimera eventually moved to the Uffizi, and then again to the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, where it can be seen today, a splendid example of the imaginary turned nearly real.
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One of the most famous gems of Lorenzo's collection "Apollo, Marsyas and Olympos, " a carving on carnelian dating from the first half of the first century, from the Archaeological Museum of Naples bears those same initials.
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The event is organised in cooperation with the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, and with the support of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, the ICOM Regional Alliance for South-East Europe, and the UNESCO Chair in intercultural policy (Thessaloniki).
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The museum is home to archaeological artifacts from thousands of years of history in the Tigris-Euphrates basin, widely held to be the site of the world's earliest civilizations.
Organized to mark the 100th anniversary of the first excavations at Uruk, the show is a sweeping presentation of archaeological objects (including loans from the British Museum and the Louvre), architectural reconstructions and digital renderings that provide the most complete overview of the metropolis ever assembled.
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The exhibition charts the looting of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and the continuing looting of archaeological sites in the country.
Many archaeological remains have been uncovered during the digging for the museum's foundations - not something which is particularly surprising given how close the building site is to the Acropolis itself.
Shropshire Council said grant funding from several organisations, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Association for Roman Archaeology and the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society allowed then to be bought for the county.
The American Association of Museum Art Directors, American Schools of Oriental Research and the Archaeological Institute of America have issued similar pleas to government leaders to protect Iraq's museums, monuments, cultural centers and archaeological sites.
The signatories of the letter have expressed their concern over the damage and loss inflicted on the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and other museums, libraries and archives, the looting of archaeological sites, and the damage to historic monuments that took place during the war and subsequent occupation.
Museum director, Neil MacGregor, said the exhibition has been possible following a collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and Pompeii, "which has meant extremely generous loans of precious objects from their collections, some that have never travelled before".
Mr Williams has worked with Dennis Parsons at the Somerset Heritage Centre, Somerset Archaeological Natural History Society, which owns the collection, and leading insect fossil expert Andrew Ross, from the Museum of Scotland, to get the Taunton collection curated.
The purpose-built Beacon Museum was opened in 1996 and houses a gallery as well as a range of photographs, textiles and archaeological finds.
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