I spent a part of my Friday off at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, where Associate Professor Andrew Jamieson from Melbourne University delivered a lecture on the Nimrud ivories in the university's Classics and Archaeology Collection. Archaeology as the biography of objects The three delicate pieces are more than 2,500 years old and were … Continue reading Cycles of war in three objects
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Review: A mammoth undertaking
One of my favourite places growing up was the Adelaide Museum. I didn't get to visit very often, but the gigantic whale skeleton in the front window is seared into my memory, as are the painted walls of the quiet Egyptian room. Part of the attraction of museums is the melancholy. The dead live again … Continue reading Review: A mammoth undertaking
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