Antiquities Exhibits

The Road to Palmyra through March 1, 2020 at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Harald Ingholt, a Danish archaeologist, was on his third campaign of excavations at Palmyra, in present-day Syria, in 1928, when his team unearthed a half-length portrait of an unknown woman made between 190 and 210 CE in a tomb dubbed Qasr Abjad. The following year Ingholt presented The Beauty of Palmyra and around a dozen other sculptures  to Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Today, the Glyptotek’s collection of Palmyrene tomb sculptures is the largest outside Syria. For the past 18 months, Cecilie Brøns, an archaeologist and director of the Glyptotek’s Tracking Colour project, which examines the use of pigments in antiquity, has led a team reconstructing how the tomb sculpture may originally have looked. Using X-ray fluorescence, the team identified paint patches, mostly red and yellow ochre, which were well ­preserved due to the sculpture having been ­underground for nearly two millenn...

The Archaeological Museum of Arlon in in Arlon, Province of Luxemborg.  Arlon is located at the crossroads of two important Roman roads (Reims-Trier and Metz-Tongres) which allowed the ancient residents to experience a prosperity during the first three centuries of our era. Located in the former territory of the city of Treviri the town bore the name of Orolaunum vicus.  The museum is especially noted for its rich collection of ancient funerary monuments due to their reuse in a rampart built at the end of the third century and early fourth century CE to protect the vicus from invasion. Image: Grave stele depicting tax collection.  Image courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Arlon in Arlon, Province of Luxembourg.