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summer academy
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workshops
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a next room Early Bronze Age pottery, jewellery and
seals accompany a magnificently restored carved stucco
capital from the Congregational Mosque on Amman's Citadel.
And in yet another display space, the use of new techniques,
which include computer-generated restoration, is explained
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"In
order to maximize the information recovered from excavations
and archaeological material, archaeologists constantly try
to develop and improve their methods. These include using
the latest techniques of analyzing satellite images, improving
our ability to see below the surface, with geophysics, examining
objects at high magnifications, looking at microscope slides
of the soils fro a site, developing detailed reconstructions
of past environments, experimenting with building techniques
and the process of destruction, and understanding past technologies."
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This
probably best explains the huge amount of effort and
work involved in the work responsible for bringing
to light the civilizations of our ancestors, a small
part of which the viewers are privileged to view in
this exhibition.
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A
great undertaking, a great meeting field for different peoples
and for archaeologists who best bridge times and civilizations.
The exhibition, which opened on May 17 under the patronage
of Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania, will be
on until July 17. It will be accompanied during this period
by lectures, workshops, movie screenings and site visits,
targeting, besides the general public students and thus adding
"and educational element" to an already "enlivened exhibition".
Ica Wahbeh, Jordan Times |
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