True to his reputation as a master of his own publicity, Hawass has popped up in American media this week to broadcast the message that Egypt's antiquities remain unharmed — for which, he implies, he deserves some credit.
Though a smaller category by comparison, antiquities remain a traditional favorite at Maastricht.
Islamic State has released new footage depicting unscathed ruins in the Syrian city of Palmyra, and activists say the group has promised to spare much of the ancient site and only destroy statues deemed polytheistic – raising hopes that some of the most magnificent surviving ruins of antiquity may remain intact.
When ISIS is eventually destroyed, however, the general problem of trafficking in antiquities will remain as it has for decades.
In classical antiquity, pacifism remained largely an ideal in the minds of a few intellectuals.
The various cane instruments with a single reed and stemming from antiquity still remained in the area around the Mediterranean as folk instruments.
That living organisms originated from inanimate material was not a new idea; "spontaneous generation" had been debated since antiquity, and remained a hot topic in Victorian science even after Pasteur (for a full account see Strick 2002), albeit applied mainly to microbes (cf. "formulae" for "making" vermin that were in currency during preceding centuries).
Although the Romans, who called their own society a populus ("civil people"), used the term rex ("king") only for rulers of peoples at lower levels of sociocultural development, the political order of kings and peoples became a commonplace in Europe in late antiquity and would remain so until the 19th century.
Turning to 50 pages of items lent by the Iraqi museum for the exhibition, he said none of the antiquities pictured remained after the looting.
The rubble -- all that is left of an unknown number of priceless antiquities -- remained hidden until January, when Paul Bucherer, director of a small museum in Switzerland dedicated to Afghan culture, was ushered into the room at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, where, paradoxically, the crates had been sent for safekeeping in the late 1990's.
