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☆ A 13-year-old girl helped unearth an ancient Roman town. She's finally getting credit for it over 90 years later.
  + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Tessa Wheeler helped lead the dig and taught the team valuable archaeological skills. An exhibit at the Verulamium Museum highlights the contributions. AdvertisementIn the early 1930s, a 13-year-old girl, Helen Carlton-Smith, helped excavate a former Roman settlement. A network of female archaeologistsCarlton-Smith's diary also revealed how Tessa Wheeler helped instruct the men and women working on the excavation. Advertisement"I believe the real heroine of the story is Tessa Wheeler," Diggins said.
Persons: Helen Carlton, Smith, Tessa Wheeler, —, Verulamium, Mortimer Wheeler, Tessa Verney Wheeler, Lexi Diggins, Diggins, Smith's, Helen, Helen of Troy, Carlton, Kathleen Kenyon, Peggy Piggot Guido, Tessa Wheeler's Organizations: Verulamium Museum, Service, London Museum, Carlton, St Albans Locations: what's, Hertfordshire, England, Roman, British, Sutton
☆ Hardcore Swiftie? A London museum will pay for your expertise.
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewA museum in London is recruiting Taylor Swift superfans to become paid official advisors on the pop star. The V&A Museum will pay a set rate per session to hardcore Swifties who can provide their expertise on Swift's fan culture and memorabilia. According to the V&A's job description, successful candidates will collaborate with its curatorial experts and will get to go behind the scenes at the museum to review relevant items from its existing collection. Information gathered from their sessions may be used to develop future programming at the museum, the job description said. The superfan roles will help position the museum as "cultural trendspotters on what to collect next," the job description said.
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☆ How Will the Greek Election Affect the Parthenon Marbles?
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Since November 2021, Greece’s prime minister and the British Museum have been holding back-room talks about the potential return of at least some of the Parthenon Marbles, a collection of antique treasures that once decorated the famed pillared temple in Athens. The collection, which includes statues of Greek gods and carved friezes, was taken from Greece in the early 1800s by Lord Elgin, a British aristocrat. The prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has met several times with George Osborne, a former chancellor of the Exchequer who is now chairman of the British Museum.. The rapport between Mitsotakis and Osborne has widely been seen as one reason the talks have progressed so far. But on Sunday, Greece holds an election and the talks have been postponed until the result of the vote is clear.
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