Archaeology : A view From the Bridge

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A new exhibition of 2,000-year-old artefacts retrieved in 1900 from a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera includes some breathtakingly pristine treasures — such as a bowl made of delicate coils of turquoise, yellow and purple glass, and a miniature golden figure of Eros hanging from an earring set with garnets, an emerald and 20 tiny pearls.  <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/09/29/beyond-the-antikythera-mechanism#more-2527" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"> <aside> <div class="article-tools cleared"> <h2 class="hidden">Article tools</h2> <ul id="wpn-share-post-2527" class="wpn-entry-user-actions"> <li class="wpn-entry-comment-link"><a class="comments-link" href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/09/29/beyond-the-antikythera-mechanism/#comments" title="Comment on Beyond the Antikythera mechanism">1 Comment</a></li> <li class="sendtofriend"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/tell-a-friend?id=2527">Email</a></li> <li class="wpn-share-bookmark"> <h3 class="toggle-bookmarking-links">Share/bookmark</h3> <div id="bookmarking-links" class="bookmarking-popup"> <ul class="bookmarking" id="wpn-share-post-2527"> <li class="facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F">Facebook</a></li> <li class="twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/?status=Beyond+the+Antikythera+mechanism+https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F">Twitter</a></li> <li class="delicious"><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F&title=Beyond+the+Antikythera+mechanism">Delicious</a></li> <li class="digg"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F&title=Beyond+the+Antikythera+mechanism">Digg</a></li> <li class="googleplus"><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F">Google+</a></li> <li class="linkedin"><a href="http://linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F&title=Beyond+the+Antikythera+mechanism">LinkedIn</a></li> <li class="reddit"><a href="http://reddit.com/s/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F">Reddit</a></li> <li class="stumbleupon"><a href="http://stumbleupon.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F09%2F29%2Fbeyond-the-antikythera-mechanism%2F&title=Beyond+the+Antikythera+mechanism">StumbleUpon</a></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </aside> </div> </div> </article> <article> <div id="wpn-post-1127" class="hentry wpn-post wpn-publish wpn-post-4 wpn-even wpn-alt wpn-author-barbara-kiser wpn-has-excerpt wpn-category-apiculture wpn-category-archaeology wpn-category-arts cleared"> <p class="wpn-dateline"><time datetime="2015-05-06T06:30:31+01:00" pubdate><span class="published"><abbr class="value" title="2015-05-06">May 6, 2015 </abbr>|<abbr class="value" title="2015-05-06"> 6:30 am</abbr></span></time></p><h2 class='wpn-post-title entry-title article-heading secondary-heading'><a href='https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/05/06/tracing-the-hum/'>Tracing the hum</a></h2> <p class="wpn-byline">Posted by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/author/barbara-kiser/" title="Barbara Kiser">Barbara Kiser</a></span><span class="divider"> | </span><span class="category"><span class="before">Categories: </span><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/category/apiculture/" rel="tag">Apiculture</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/category/archaeology/" rel="tag">Archaeology</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/category/arts/" rel="tag">Arts</a></span></p> <div class="wpn-entry-summary"> <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/05/06/tracing-the-hum/" title="Tracing the hum "><img src="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/files/2015/05/image001-1-150x150.jpg" alt="Amy Shelton's lightbox installation Florilegium: Honey Flow." class="thumbnail " width="150" /></a><p>Consider the honeybee. Not as an automaton in a honey factory, but as a remarkable social insect and pollinator indissolubly tied to food security — and to the artistic imagination. So asks the poet John Burnside in his incisive essay on the bee in culture in this week’s Books and Arts.  <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/05/06/tracing-the-hum#more-1127" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"> <aside> <div class="article-tools cleared"> <h2 class="hidden">Article tools</h2> <ul id="wpn-share-post-1127" class="wpn-entry-user-actions"> <li class="wpn-entry-comment-link"><a class="comments-link" href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/05/06/tracing-the-hum/#respond" title="Comment on Tracing the hum">add a comment</a></li> <li class="sendtofriend"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/tell-a-friend?id=1127">Email</a></li> <li class="wpn-share-bookmark"> <h3 class="toggle-bookmarking-links">Share/bookmark</h3> <div id="bookmarking-links" class="bookmarking-popup"> <ul class="bookmarking" id="wpn-share-post-1127"> <li class="facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F">Facebook</a></li> <li class="twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/?status=Tracing+the+hum++https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F">Twitter</a></li> <li class="delicious"><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F&title=Tracing+the+hum+">Delicious</a></li> <li class="digg"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F&title=Tracing+the+hum+">Digg</a></li> <li class="googleplus"><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F">Google+</a></li> <li class="linkedin"><a href="http://linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F&title=Tracing+the+hum+">LinkedIn</a></li> <li class="reddit"><a href="http://reddit.com/s/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F">Reddit</a></li> <li class="stumbleupon"><a href="http://stumbleupon.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nature.com%2Faviewfromthebridge%2F2015%2F05%2F06%2Ftracing-the-hum%2F&title=Tracing+the+hum+">StumbleUpon</a></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </aside> </div> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="col" id="extranav"> <div id="wpn-primary" class="wpn-id-primary sidebar aside"> <div id="wpn-about-blog" class="current-issue-box"><div class="wrap"><h1 class="wpn-archived wpn-expander">About this blog</h1> <div>A View from the Bridge is the blog for Books and Arts, culture hub of the top international science journal Nature. 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