Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:20:02 +0100 (Reuters) - A couple leaves the archaeological site of the Acropolis in Athens November 28, 2011. Greece's debt crisis has badly hurt tourism -- forcing visitors to clamber over fences to see closed monuments or curtail trips to avoid unrest, endangering new cultural initiatives and even raising concerns about the security around some of the country's most precious archaeological sites. Greek Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos has said the government is doing its best to protect Greece's heritage. But the ministry has had to axe 2,000 staff since the debt crisis broke in 2009, mostly people on temporary contracts, and this has taken its toll, especially on smaller museums, forcing some to shorten their opening hours, for example, he said. Picture taken November 28. To match Feature GREECE-CRISIS/MONUMENTS REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: TRAVEL BUSINESS)
An archaeological piece is seen after it was found at the bottom ...
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - An archaeological piece is seen after it was found at the bottom of the Atitlan lake, 160 km (99 miles), from Guatemala City November 18, 2011. Archeological researchers say they have found a submerged city, inhibited during the preclassic period in 2500 B.C, 100 feet (30 metres) below the surface. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: SOCIETY)
A photographer takes pictures of archaeological pieces returned ...
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:50:01 +0200 (Reuters) - A photographer takes pictures of archaeological pieces returned by the Brooklyn Museum in the United States during a media preview at the National Museum in San Jose September 29, 2011. According to the press office of the National Museum, the Brooklyn Museum returned 981 archaeological pieces taken from Costa Rica which were exported in the late 19th and 20th centuries by Minor Cooper Keith, a railroad magnate and a founder of the United Fruit Company. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA - Tags: SOCIETY)
Archaeological pieces returned by the Brooklyn Museum in the ...
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:40:01 +0200 (Reuters) - Archaeological pieces returned by the Brooklyn Museum in the United States are displayed during a media preview at the National Museum in San Jose September 29, 2011. According to the press office of the National Museum, the Brooklyn Museum returned 981 archaeological pieces taken from Costa Rica which were exported in the late 19th and 20th centuries by Minor Cooper Keith, a railroad magnate and a founder of the United Fruit Company. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA - Tags: SOCIETY)
Archaeological students clean some of the unearthed remains ...
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:30:02 +0200 (Reuters) - Archaeological students clean some of the unearthed remains of 42 children and 74 camelids, sacrificed approximately 800 years ago and found in the fishing town of Huanchaquito, Trujillo September 13, 2011. The massive sacrifice were part of a religious ceremony of the pre-inca Chimu culture for the fertility of the ocean and the land, and it represents the most important discovery related to human and animal sacrifices of the Chimu culture in terms of numbers of excavated individuals, according to Oscar Gabriel Prieto, chief archaeologist of the archaeological project. Picture taken September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TRAVEL)
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