The drafting of the World Heritage Convention was inspired by the international synergy of this great project as well as subsequent UNESCO campaigns during the 1960s to conserve treasures such as the city of Venice, Italy, after the great flood of 1966, the threatened Bronze Age city of Moenjodaro in Pakistan, and the Buddhist temple compounds of Borobodur, Indonesia.
Contemporary archaeologists of the Bronze Age prefer scientific analysis of potsherds and bones to grand theories.
The Ring is a circle of beech trees, planted on a hilltop that had been the site of Bronze Age and Iron Age fortifications, and a Roman temple.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.
Other finds turned up in the course of excavations for the rail route include bones from prehistoric animals, Bronze Age and Roman tools, and the largest piece of amber ever uncovered in Britain.
After all, the Iron Age led to gigantic empires in the Middle East the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian as it dramatically undercut the previous Bronze Age cost of tools, armor, and weaponry.
In another area not far from modern Sibari, near Spezzano Albanese, the archaeologists have unearthed dwellings from the Middle Bronze Age alongside objects of Aegean origin.
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Either way, though, the evidence is pretty indicative that the person wrapped in this cloth would probably have made the Bronze Age Denmark version of the Forbes 400.
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If you have time, it is only a short 2km drive from here to the little-visited ruins of Khirbet Mukhayyat, believed to be the original ancient town of Nebo, settled since the early Bronze Age.
In 2010, the International Olympic Committee stripped China of its bronze medal from the 2000 Games for lying about the age of a team member who was 14 when she competed.
The Crossrail archaeologists say the large network of timber pathways gave Bronze Age hunters easier access to the wildlife living on the area's lush wetlands.
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There are also plans to open more of the Bronze Age copper mine on Llandudno's Great Orme.
The collapse of early Bronze Age civilizations in modern-day Greece, India and Greece have been theoretically linked to abrupt climate changes about 4, 200 years ago.
The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains found on the moor and a hoard of about 150 beads.
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Surface surveys and rescue excavations, the result of a building boom in the Peloponnese, provide lots of new information about other areas of Bronze Age life, from farming to foreign trade.
Y. systems engineer Michael Crisafulli , 55, a history buff, has taken a volunteer trip nearly every year since 1991-including the 1994 excavation of a Bronze Age site in Borja, Spain where he met his wife, Karen, a teacher.
We toured nearby Nairn, a fishing port ruled for centuries by the Roses, then drove through fields to the Bronze-Age Clava Cairns, two bus-size circles of stones set within an eerily silent grove.
The remains investigated here span 3, 500 years of European prehistory, from the Early Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
By the end of 2005 they had some 300 items - from the Neolithic Era, the Bronze Age, the Roman period and medieval times.
Their monuments survive, but their houses (rare exceptions aside, particularly in Orkney) are lost to us, so in the later Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age, these henges and stones circles seem to have been the prime concerns of the people who built them.
Experts say it is unusual for so many organic objects to survive for this length of time in a grave from the Bronze Age period.
Nevertheless, stone circles and henges do appear to be connected parts of a tradition that developed in Britain from around 3000 to 2000 BC - in other words, during the later Neolithic period (when agriculture began here) and moving into the earlier Bronze Age (when we see the first use of metals, from about 2400 BC).
Nothing has taken our collective mind off the endless economic and political suckitude like this lovable crew of Bronze Age cave people pierced and tattooed and unsophisticated and fake-tanned but all heart.
From the Bronze Age, finds included a skeleton and from the Iron Age evidence of metal work.
Two Bronze Age burial pots containing human remains have been found at the base of a standing stone in Angus.
At the foot of the red rock, there are remains dating back thousands of years: a Romano-Celtic temple, Bronze Age walls and structures built as long ago as the Neolithic period.
The boat will be on display in a new gallery at the museum, which will also showcase a range of artefacts from the Portsmouth area, including Saxon jewellery and weaponry, prehistoric flint tools and a Bronze Age torc (neck ornament).
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