Finds the ancient period in Vani
Археологические находки античного периода, обнаруженные в древнем городе Вани, Западная Грузия. III-I в. до нашей эры. Национальный музей Грузии.
Archaeological discoveries of the antique period, discovered in the ancient city of Vani, Western Georgia. III-I in. BC. National Museum of Georgia.
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The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
From July 16, till October 5, 2009, the Getty Villa, at the J. Paul Getty Museum hosts an exhibition The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. The exhibition presents more than 140 archaeological objects from Vani, including four bronze lamps that were discovered in 2007 and are displayed together for the first time.
The exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, and the Georgian National Museum.
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Ancient treasures from the land of the Golden Fleece on show
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Tbilisi, Georgia - May 24, 2011
1. Close up of dish from Armaziskhevi burial (3rd century B.C.)
2. Mid of dish from Armaziskhevi burial (3rd century B.C.)
3. Mid of golden necklace from Armaziskhevi excavation works (2nd century A.D.)
4. Close of golden necklace
5. Close of golden lion from Vani excavation works
6. Various of people inside the exhibition
7. Close up of sign reading (in English) Archaeological Treasury
8. Various of women looking at exhibits
9. Close of golden temple rings from Vani burial (4th century B.C.)
10. Wide of exhibits from Vani excavation works
11. Various of people at exhibition
12. Close up of exhibit, tilt up
13. Man looking at exhibit
14. Close up of golden headdress from Vani burial (4th century B.C.)
15. Mid of Director of the Georgian National Museum, David Lortkipanidze (nearest camera) with Georgian Minister of Culture Nikoloz Rurua
16. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lortkipanidze, Director of Georgian National Museum:
I think everyone knows that the Georgia is the country of the Golden Fleece, Georgia is the country of very early metal. And archaeological remains are proving it. Now what we try, we prepare the treasury which will highlight all these finds. One part will be very earliest metallurgy, very earliest gold, - (it) starts around five thousand years old. Then we have fantastic finds from Vani which travelled all over the world where you can see jewellery and goldsmith form the Colchis (ancient Georgian kingdom) and the last part will be Iberia. So, what we tried we made a new hall were we have all conditions which are required for modern museums - including design, I think.
17. Mid people at exhibition
18. Close up of man taking photograph of gold objects in case
19. Writing set from Mtskheta burial site (4th century A.D.)
20. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Mindia Jalabadze, Archaeologist : ++ AUDIO AS INCOMING ++
This is the writing set: the box with the inscription of all nine muses from the Greek mythology, the golden ink-pot in which we found remains of black ink, also pens which are no different from the modern pen.
21. Close up of inkpot and box
22. Mid people at the exhibition
23. Wide of journalists at press view
24. Mid of Nikoloz Rurua, Georgian Minister of Culture, walking with David Lortkipanidze
25. Close up sword of the King Erekle II of Georgia being removed from storage drawer
26. Mid Rurua and Lortkipanidze looking at sword
27. Close up, various of sword
28. Mid of rack of old warrior chain mail
29. Close up of warrior helmets
30. Close old rifles tilt up to Rurua and Lortkipanidze looking at the rifles
31. Close up of rifle belonging to Georgian military commander George Saakadze
32. Wide rifles in armoury cupboard
33. Various of Rurua and Lortkipanidze at photograph archive
34. Mid of ancient clay jar
35. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lortkipanidze, Director of Georgian National Museum:
Our advantage is that we have is a very rich heritage and heritage should be not only preserved but should be presented for the public. A 21st Century museum's work is to be active and, in particular, interactive - and not just for scientists but to have a dialogue with the public. This is our goal and I hope we can achieve it step by step.
36. Various of pitchers from Kholve (3rd century B.C.)
37. Wide of museum garden
38. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikoloz Rurua, Minister of Culture, Georgia:
39. Wide of entrance to the museum
40. Close of sign reading (English) Georgian National Museum
41. Various exteriors of Georgian National Museum
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Georgia/Signagi Main Square Part 3
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Signagi or Sighnaghi (Georgian: სიღნაღი) is a town in Georgia's easternmost region of Kakheti and the administrative center of the Signagi Municipality. Although it is one of Georgia's smallest towns,Signagi serves as a popular tourist destination due to its location at the heart of Georgia's wine-growing regions, as well as its picturesque landscapes, pastel houses and narrow, cobblestone streets. Located on a steep hill, Signagi overlooks the vast Alazani Valley, with the Caucasus Mountains visible at a distance.
Today Sighnaghi is being ambitiously developed into a tourism hub for Kakheti, with an emphasis on wine. It is already the scene of a big wine festival one weekend each October. Marshrutkas to Sighnaghi (6 GEL, 2½ hours) leave every couple of hours from about 7am to 5pm from outside Samgori metro station in Tbilisi, with a similar schedule returning (the first and last from Sighnaghi are at 7am and 6pm). There’s a single daily departure from Sighnaghi to Telavi.
The town has an area of 2.978 km² with 24.3% being residential.Signagi is approximately 113 km southeast of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Signagi District is adjacent, on the town’s east and southwest sides. Signagi is situated in the eastern foothills of the Gombori Range, a watershed between the Iori and Alazani valleys, in a productive agricultural and fruit-growing region. At the elevation of about 790 m above sea level, the town overlooks the Alazani Valley and faces the Greater Caucasus mountains.
Signagi has a mild Mediterranean-like climate. There are four seasons, with winters being moderately cold while summers can be hot. The highest average temperature is in July at 24.3°C while the lowest average temperature is in January at 0.2°C. Average annual precipitation ranges from 602.1 to 949.7 mm, with the heaviest occurring during the spring months and early summer.
Signagi and its environs are home to several historical and cultural monuments and has been specifically protected by the State since 1975. The town is walled with the remnants of 18th-century fortifications. There are two Georgian Orthodox churches in the town itself - one dedicated to St. George and the other to St. Stephen. The venerated Bodbe Monastery is located 2 kilometers from Signagi and is a place of pilgrimage due to its association with St. Nino, the 4th-century apostle of Georgia.
The local Ethnographic and Archaeological Museum dating from the 1950s was upgraded and developed into a modern-standard exhibition the – Signagi Museum – in 2007. Signagi is known as a City of Love in Georgia, with many couples visiting it just to get married.Wikipedia
From the Land of the Golden Fleece: Tomb Treasures of Ancient Georgia
Museum Director Dr Timothy Potts provides a personal introduction to this spectacular collection of 2000 year-old tomb and temple treasures from Ancient Georgia - the land to which the Greek hero Jason is fabled to have led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece. This podcast looks at highlights from the exhibition, from ancient gold and silver jewellery to bronze sculpture and other magnificent funerary items. (This exhibition was shown at The Fitzwilliam Museum 2 October 2008 - 4 January 2009.)
ვანის საგანძური კემბრიჯში, Georgian National Museum
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Unintended Archeology Performance at The Lodge Gallery
This exhibition is created in collaboration with Uta Bekaia. Both artists share same cultural background, and furthermore, the same concerns regarding identity and historical memory, but they employ two different starting points in their practice. While Mindiashvili is concerned with the intellectual knowledge and limitations imposed by society and culture, Bekaia is interested in genetical, biological memory.
The artists have also conceived a performance entitled If You Lived Here You Would Be Home Now, which will be performed by Japanese/American butoh dancer Azumi Oe on the day of the opening. The resulting residual remnants of the performance piece will become part of the installation, and remain on view for the run of the show.
Levan Mindiashvili received his BFA in sculpture from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and realized post-graduate studies in Crossed Media Arts at The National University of Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his awards should be mentioned Commission Grant for Public Art Projects from National Endowments for Arts, New York 2014 and Emerging Artist of 2011, Movistar Arte Jóven, 2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; Brooklyn; Hathaway David Contemporary, Atlanta; ODETTA, Brooklyn; RichMix, London; Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi; Recent solo exhibitions include “Studies For Unintended Archeology”, The Vazquez Building, Brooklyn; “Borderlines”, The Lodge Gallery, New York; “Urban Identities”, Kunstraub99, Cologne.
Uta Bekaia Georgian Born, New York based multimedia artist. He had studied Industrial Design at Tbilisi Mtsire Academy. He debuted as an artist at AMA (Avant-Guard Fashion Assembly) with a sculptural performance. He creates multimedia performances and installations inhabited with wearable sculptures, exploring his historical cultural background, genetical codes and cycles of the universe. His works were included in Istanbul 14th Biennial and Kiev 2nd Biennial. He currently presented performance pieces “Vestiphobia”, Ideal Glass, New York; “Fua Sia Tata Sia”, The Movement Theater, Tbilisi; and Tbilisi City Parade “Berikaoba”.
The Lodge Gallery, founded by Keith Schweitzer and Jason Patrick Voegele, is located at 131 Chrystie Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It is the exhibition venue of Republic Worldwide and serves as both an art space and a gathering place for hearty discourse and experimentation.
Georgia driving to west Mengrelia day one
Georgia Day One in Mengrelia driving to west Georgia Mengrelia! Mengrelian food at the end of the video enjoy ????
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Outreach & Education - Oshki Monastery, Turkey
The ruins of Oshki Monastery, a 2012 Watch site, are found in the town of Çamlıyamaç in northeastern Turkey. The monastic complex—consisting of the large church, two small chapels, and associated monastic buildings—was constructed over a decade beginning in 963 through the patronage of the Georgian Bagrationi royal family. Oshki was abandoned in the seventeenth century, following the Ottoman conquest of the region. Part of the main church was reoccupied in the nineteenth century for a period of time after conversion of a transept into a mosque. The site is visited by tourists, but faces serious conservation challenges. This short film, shot between May 2012 and April 2013, shows its current state.
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A golden reopening for Georgias top museum
The Georgian National Museum has opened its doors with a glittering exhibition of ancient gold from the fabled land where legend has it that Jason and the Argonauts searched for the Golden Fleece.
They are some of the most important artefacts from Georgia's long and varied history dating back thousands of years.
More than 100 exhibits give a unique glimpse into the region that lay between ancient Greece and Persia.
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Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. In 2011, the city had a population of 4.5 million, while the population of the city and its suburbs was 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. Recent estimates of Kolkata Metropolitan Area's economy have ranged from $60 to $150 billion (GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity) making it third most-productive metropolitan area in India, after Mumbai and Delhi.[11][12][13] Kolkata /koʊlˈkɑːtə/ (Bengali pronunciation: [kolkat̪a]) was formerly known as Calcutta /kælˈkʌtə/, the official name until 2001.
In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Calcutta were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading licence in 1690,[15] the area was developed by the Company into an increasingly fortified trading post. Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah occupied Calcutta in 1756, and the East India Company retook it the following year. In 1793 the East India company was strong enough to abolish Nizamat (local rule), and assumed full sovereignty of the region. Under the company rule, and later under the British Raj, Calcutta served as the capital of British-held territories in India until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in Bengal, led to a shift of the capital to New Delhi. Calcutta was the centre for the Indian independence movement; it remains a hotbed of contemporary state politics. Following Indian independence in 1947, Kolkata, which was once the centre of modern Indian education, science, culture, and politics, suffered several decades of economic stagnation.
As a nucleus of the 19th- and early 20th-century Bengal Renaissance and a religiously and ethnically diverse centre of culture in Bengal and India, Kolkata has local traditions in drama, art, film, theatre, and literature. Many people from Kolkata—among them several Nobel laureates—have contributed to the arts, the sciences, and other areas. Kolkata culture features idiosyncrasies that include distinctively close-knit neighbourhoods (paras) and freestyle intellectual exchanges (adda). West Bengal's share of the Bengali film industry is based in the city, which also hosts venerable cultural institutions of national importance, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum and the National Library of India. Among professional scientific institutions, Kolkata hosts the Agri Horticultural Society of India, the Geological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Zoological Survey of India, the Institution of Engineers, the Anthropological Survey of India and the Indian Public Health Association. Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association football and other sports.The discovery and archaeological study of Chandraketugarh, 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Kolkata, provide evidence that the region in which the city stands has been inhabited for over two millennia.[21][22] Kolkata's recorded history began in 1690 with the arrival of the English East India Company, which was consolidating its trade business in Bengal. Job Charnock, an administrator who worked for the company, was formerly credited as the founder of the city;[23] In response to a public petition,[24] the Calcutta High Court ruled in 2003 that the city does not have a founder.[25] The area occupied by the present-day city encompassed three villages: Kalikata, Gobindapur, and Sutanuti.
Beyond form: Iberian Late Bronze Age stelae in-the-making
Late Bronze Age stelae (c. 1400/1250-750 BC), found mainly across western and southwestern Iberia, are formally diverse. Most of these carefully carved stones were found in the landscape, as un-stratified remains, and mainstream archaeology has consistently focused on the formal analysis of the images engraved on them. As a result, these large stones and the carvings they bear have been categorised into groups, types, and subtypes which are then read as expressions of a variety of symbolic frameworks (e.g. ethnic identities, ideologies). There are problems with this kind of approach, being one of them the lack of critical reflection on the very concept of similarity and, more fundamentally, on how form came about.
This paper focuses on the process of stelae-making. It aims to draw attention to the limitations of formal approaches to the analysis of prehistoric imagery and highlight the potential of adopting a bottom-up approach, that is, of looking at the interaction between people and the stones when the latter were shaped, carved, re-carved, and so on. I will draw on the recent analysis of the surface texture of a sample of stelae by means of digital imaging methods (i.e. RTI) and the results of a replication experiment to reflect on the many factors (e.g. properties of stones, knowledge, skills) and interventions that have been involved in the making of Late Bronze Age stelae as we know them today.
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In search of: Grave of Indian King Raja Raja Chola - Was he murdered?
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In this video, I am gonna show you my search for the grave of the Indian King Raja Raja. I was told that his tombstone lies in the small village of Udayalur. This is where he is rumored to have been buried or cremated.
When I visited this place, I was surprised to see a lingam which is about 2 feet tall and this elderly gentleman told me that the rest of the structure is buried underneath about 14 feet deep. It is a rather simple lingam with a diameter of only one and a half feet. He says this Lingam is the tombstone of Raja Raja. I asked him if he knew how Raja Raja died, and he told me he died naturally of old age and was cremated right here. Why would a great king have such a small, anonymous grave? You can see there are no inscriptions, no other carvings on this lingam or anywhere in this site. Remember, Raja Raja built the greatest temple in India which is now declared a world heritage site and his accomplishments and other information are inscribed all over the walls in many temples. So, I asked this gentleman, if there is any evidence to prove that this is in fact Raja Raja's grave.
He told me there used to be a pillar here and it was donated to a temple called Paalkulathu amman temple, a few miles away. He said that this pillar has inscriptions which proves that Raja Raja died here.
So, I decided to travel to this temple and take a look at this pillar myself. As soon as I reached the temple, I immediately spotted the pillar. The pillar does contain the word RajaRaja so it is obviously related to the King, but I was not able to completely understand what the inscription said. So, I took a lot of pictures and copied the entire writings on a scratchpad.
I contacted an epigraphist, who was able to tell me exactly what was written in this pillar. I've posted the entire inscription and it's translation on my website phenomenalplace.com and you can take a look at it if you are interested. I double checked this information with another expert as well.
What the inscription says is that the Royal Palace of Raja Raja Chola was renovated by 4 people. The inscription includes those 4 names and that is all the information we see on this pillar. The inscription has no reference to the death or grave of the King at all. This shows that the site of this lingam is probably not Raja Raja's grave and there is no actual evidence to claim so.
This raises the question of what happened to Raja Raja, how did he die? Where did his funeral take place? Think a moment, there are hundreds of inscriptions about Raja Raja's accomplishments, how he conquered various territories, how he built the great temple and even when he was born. But there is no information whatsoever about when or how he died and where he was buried or cremated.
So I decided to go back to Thanjavur to find out more about his death. I contacted several archeologists and they told me that the only reason why a King's death would not recorded is if the King died an unnatural death. So, if a King committed suicide or was murdered, then the ancient Tamils would not record that.
I spoke to a lot of locals in Thanjavur to see if anyone knew how he died. The locals tell a very different, but consistent story. It turns out that Raja Raja was actually murdered by a woman from Sri Lanka. Let's hear what this gentleman says. In 993 A.D, Raja Raja conquered half of Sri Lanka and the defeated King Mahinda V fled to the south, to avoid being captured. Unable to defeat Raja Raja in the battlefield, King Mahinda sent a Buddhist woman from Sri Lanka who slowly got into the inner circle of Raja Raja. When Raja Raja was standing on the 8th floor inspecting the progress of the Big Temple, she simply pushed him down. This fall killed him instantly.
People claim this is why the temple was not properly finished and his son created a whole new capital in a different city because he thought that this was a cursed place. This story also explains why his son Rajendra Chola went after Sri Lanka with a vengeance, conquering the entire island. He then found King Mahinda who was hiding, brought him back and kept him as a lifelong prisoner. Mahinda V died in prison around 1029 A.D. Although this story explains why there is no record of Raja Raja's death or his tomb, again, I have to point out that I don't have any actual evidence to prove this. So, my quest for Raja Raja's grave and the nature of his death remains incomplete but I'm gonna keep searching. I hope you liked this video, I am Praveen Mohan. Thank you for watching and talk to you soon.
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Georgian wine | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:46 1 History
00:04:55 2 Viticulture in Georgia today
00:06:02 3 Growing conditions
00:06:47 4 Georgian grape varieties
00:07:16 5 Georgian wine varieties
00:07:50 5.1 White
00:14:10 5.2 Red
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00:26:09 6 Wine styles
00:27:35 7 Wine-producing regions of Georgia
00:28:31 8 See also
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Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the world. The fertile valleys and protective slopes of the Transcaucasia were home to grapevine cultivation and neolithic wine production (Georgian: ღვინო, ɣvino) for at least 8000 years. Due to the many millennia of wine in Georgian history and its prominent economic role, the traditions of wine are considered entwined with and inseparable from the national identity.Among the best-known Georgian wine regions are Kakheti (further divided into the micro-regions of Telavi and Kvareli), Kartli, Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Adjara and Abkhazia.
UNESCO added the ancient traditional Georgian winemaking method using the Kvevri clay jars to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
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Urartu (), which corresponds to the biblical mountains of Ararat, is the name of a geographical region commonly used as the exonym for the Iron Age kingdom also known by the modern rendition of its endonym, the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands.
That a distinction should be made between the geographical and the political entity was pointed out by König. The geographical area corresponds to the mountainous plateau between Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Iranian Plateau, and the Caucasus Mountains, later known as the Armenian Highlands.
The written language that the kingdom's political elite used is referred to as Urartian, which appears in cuneiform inscriptions in Armenia and eastern Turkey. It is unknown what language was spoken by the peoples of Urartu at the time of the existence of the kingdom, but there is linguistic evidence of contact between the proto-Armenian language and the Urartian language at an early date (sometime between the 3rd—2nd millennium BC), occurring prior to the formation of Urartu as a kingdom.The kingdom rose to power in the mid-9th century BC, but went into gradual decline and was eventually conquered by the Iranian Medes in the early 6th century BC. The geopolitical region would re-emerge as Armenia shortly after. Being heirs to the Urartian realm, the earliest identifiable ancestors of the Armenians are the peoples of Urartu.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue / Colloquy 4: The Joe Miller Joke Book / Report on the We-Uns
After Miller's death, John Mottley (1692--1750) brought out a book called Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wit's Vade-Mecum (1739), published under the pseudonym of Elijah Jenkins Esq. at the price of one shilling. This was a collection of contemporary and ancient coarse witticisms, only three of which are told of Miller. This first edition was a thin pamphlet of 247 numbered jokes. This ran to three editions in its first year.
Later (not wholly connected) versions were entitled with names such as Joe Miller's Joke Book, and The New Joe Miller to latch onto the popularity of both Joe Miller himself and the popularity of Mottley's first book. It should be noted that joke books of this format (i.e. Mr Smith's Jests) were common even before this date. It was common practice to learn one or two jokes for use at parties etc.
Owing to the quality of the jokes in Mottley's book, their number increasing with each of the many subsequent editions, any time-worn jest came to be called a Joe Miller, a Joe-Millerism, or simply a Millerism.
Joke 99 states:
A Lady's Age happening to be questioned, she affirmed she was but Forty, and called upon a Gentleman that was in Company for his Opinion; Cousin, said she, do you believe I am in the Right, when I say I am but Forty? I ought not to dispute it, Madam, reply'd he, for I have heard you say so these ten Years.
Joke 234 speaks of:
A famous teacher of Arithmetick, who had long been married without being able to get his Wife with Child. One said to her 'Madam, your Husband is an excellent Arithmetician'. 'Yes, replies she, only he can't multiply.'
Joe Miller was referred to in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843), by the character Scrooge, who remarks Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending [the turkey] to Bob's will be!
Joe Miller was also referred to in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) in the limerick that Lenehan whispers during the Aeolus episode to Stephen Dedalus, the last line of which is I can't see the Joe Miller. Can you?.
According to Leonard Feinberg, the 1734 edition contains one of the oldest examples of gallows humor.