Petition against the closure of Italian School of Archaeology at Athens

**FliegerAD** · June 14, 2010, 12:49 PM

For most archaeologists this is an old but sad message, however I want to bring this up on a more public forum:

the Italian government wants to close the Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene because of cuts in the budget. The school is a hundred years and is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, which greatly contribute to archaeological research (like the British School of Athens or the Deutsche Archäologische Institut Abteilung Athen).

There is a petition against this measure, hoping to build up some publicity. Join it.

http://www.petizionionline.it/petizi...nnunciata/1363

(as you see even in times of World Cup there are more important things than football)

**DAVIDE** · June 14, 2010, 01:10 PM

Signed.. closure's a sin considering the very good work they're doing

**René Artois** · June 17, 2010, 01:59 PM

Signed. Especially significant because i'm thinking of applying for an Archaeology based course for university the year after next.

**Turumba** · June 17, 2010, 05:50 PM

Signed. I fear Classic Archaeology is a dying tree. On the other hand, next thursday i have a presentation and will use this to animate some more subscribers. I think another two flyers will find their way to the black boards of two archaeology institutes.