Museums:
“Assyrians in the Shadow of Vesuvius” is a new exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
“Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri” is now on display at the Getty Villa in southern California. The post discusses how the Getty Villa was designed after the Villa of Papyri.
“Last Supper in Pompeii” is a new exhibit opening later this month at the Ashmolean Museum.
A replica of the destroyed Lion of Mosul is going on display at London’s Imperial War Museum.
A major exhibition on Troy will open at the British Museum on November 21.
The Egyptian Museum, though losing much of its collection to the Grand Egyptian Museum, will undergo a three-year renovation with the hope of securing status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A new exhibition on Tall Zira’a opened this week at The Jordan Museum.
Lectures:
Shahrokh Razmjou will be lecturing on “The Rise and Fall of Persepolis: A Wonder of the Ancient World” in London on July 23.
Twenty scholars will be speaking at the 22nd Annual Bible and Archaeology Fest in San Diego, November 22-24.
Tourism:
Jerusalem’s “Tomb of the Kings” will reopen to visitors for the first time since 2010, but the tombs themselves will be off-limits.
With restorations complete, Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity has been removed from UNESCO’s list of endangered world heritage sites.
The Lahun Pyramid opened to the public for the first time last week.
Every year there’s a story that Carchemish will soon be opened to the public.
Babylon has been named a 2019 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Adam Stewart Brown articulates well why you should visit the Holy Land.
HT: Joseph Lauer, Ted Weis, Charles Savelle, Agade, Explorator, Bill Krewson