Her work, influenced by the Ishtar Gate of Babylon but featuring contemporary imagery as well, was meant to evoke an archaeological treasure house.
The Argolid is an archaeological treasure house and thus a tourist trade centre: Mycenae (Mykínes) was the home of Agamemnon, Tiryns the birthplace of Heracles, Epidaurus (Epídavros) the home of an ancient healing cult.
"Their work has revealed a clutch of previously unsuspected sites and monuments showing how much of the story of this world-famous archaeological treasure house remains to be told".
Among the many other sites where a visitor might profitably shelter from inclement weather, I would recommend the Casa de Castril, an archaeological museum housed in a Renaissance mansion beside the Rio Darro, and La Cartuja, a flamboyant Carthusian monastery in the Churrigueresque style, which might be defined as the Baroque plus the Rococo cubed.
Over the years Spratling also collected archaeological pieces (housed in the Museo Guillermo Spratling [William Spratling Museum] in Taxco) and founded a silvercraft school.
But Bologna's exceptional archaeological museum, housed in the Ospedale Santa Maria della Morte, has the largest collection of Egyptian art in Italy after Turin.
AS AN archaeological treasure-house, Zeugma has been called the Pompeii of the east except that it was bigger, and perhaps of even greater cultural interest, than the famous Italian town buried under ash.
An archaeological museum, housed in former storerooms and a bone warehouse from the plague years, offers a mix of funeral urns, busts and ancient burial tablets displayed in tunnels that wind beneath the Piazza del Duomo.
The protesters, who had gathered 11,000 signatures to oppose the artificial rowing lake, were left to lick their wounds.However, in September the bulldozers unearthed some archaeological finds: houses from the pre-classical period, vases that seemed to be much later, and traces of a temple.
Many cities across Turkey have built archaeological museums to house what has been dug up in their regions, and some have magnificent collections.
