Μιά μυγδαλιά καὶ δίπλα της…

 

Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος

 

Μιὰ μυγδαλιὰ καὶ δίπλα της,

ἐσύ. Μὰ πότε ἀνθίσατε;

Στέκομαι στὸ παράθυρο

καὶ σᾶς κοιτῶ καὶ κλαίω.

Τόση χαρὰ δὲν τὴν μποροῦν

τὰ μάτια.

Δός μου, Θεέ μου,

ὅλες τὶς στέρνες τ᾿ οὐρανοῦ

νὰ στὶς γιομίσω

.

Almond Blossom   by Vincent van Gogh

Top 10 Discoveries of archaeology 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Paestum, Italy. Photo by Oliver Bonjoch.

 

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Top 10 Discoveries of 2011

Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012

Years from now, when we look back on 2011, the year will almost certainly be defined by political and economic upheaval. At the same time that Western nations were shaken by a global economic slump, people in the Middle East and North Africa forcefully removed heads of state who had been in power for decades. “Arab Spring,” as the various revolutions have collectively been named, will have far-reaching implications, not just for the societies in which it took place, but also for archaeology. No year-end review would be complete without polling archaeological communities in the affected areas to determine whether sites linked to the world’s oldest civilizations, from Apamea in Syria to Saqqara in Egypt, are still intact. Our update appears here.