Submitted by Sean Williams on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 18:27
Mix two parts legend to one part myth, sprinkle some facts and grill for a few decades: the London Stone is London's enigmatic emblem, tightrope-walking over a sea of mystery and romance from its ersatz home on one of the city's busiest commercial streets.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 09:15
Ever thought you'd been speaking to a brick wall day? Well now's your chance to try it out for real, as we hook up with the London Stone on Twitter on Monday for what promises to be the masonry equivalent to Frost vs Nixon. And though you can get a huge dose of the stone's history in our inaugural Ancient World in London video, this is a web event not to be missed.
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As arbiters of ancient info, Heritage Key has managed to bypass the artefact's hefty entourage for an exclusive chat. And we've got no intention of letting up on our subject, poised as we are to give it an even bigger grilling than the City of London did many decades ago - resulting in its relative anonymity today.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 18:35
The Ancient World in London is in full swing: we've got events, competitions, quests, articles and interviews going up by the day, packing your lucky brains with fascinating info and exciting adventures. And hot on the heels of all this is the Ancient World in London video series, the first episode of which you can see right here, right now.
Meet our three intrepid explorers who will take an adventure across the Ancient World in London - Jamie Hobbis, Natalie Foster and Nicole Favish - who over the next 3 months will appear in Heritage Key's new webseries, proudly sponsored by Addison Lee. The first episode sees them going to the obvious first stop for ancient history in the city - the British Museum, but also getting out and about to the sites which people don't normally see. The trio take a trip to Cannon Street and see the mysterious London Stone.
Organised by the University of Pisa in cooperation with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Italian Archaeological Centre in Cairo, this exhibition will feature 50 original drawings of the Tuscan Literary Expedition to Egypt (1828-29), which accompanied the French Expedition of J.F. Champollion - the man who famously made the first translations of the Rosetta Stone.
Shown alongside the drawings will be unpublished manuscripts of notes taken on site by renowned Italian Egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini, as well as letters to him by famous Egyptologists - including his great friend Champollion, plus Prussian Egyptologist Karl Lepsius and Dutch Egyptologist Conradus Leemans - and other material from the Rosellini Archives in the University Library of Pisa.
The results of the 'What value do replicas hold?' Heritage Key survey are in! Everybody agrees that a replica - regardless of how real it looks - can only ever be a duplicate. Yet the vast majority (79.28%) of those who took our 'What value do replicas hold?' survey see good use for these clones, in educations, research, protection from damage and saving on travel costs.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 13:34
Yesterday saw Dr Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Antiquities chief, travel to Berlin to discuss the future of the Bust of Nefertiti with the director of the Neues Museum, her current home (watch a slideshow about the move). Yet statements released by both parties today appear to disagree on what was to be said at the showdown.
