Making life a holiday with interesting vacation and adventure ideas.

A Phoenician Ship Expedition is searching for keen sailors and adventurers to take part in a unique international project called Phoenicia.

The Expedition has begun by building a replica Phoenician/Mediterranean vessel and crew is needed in August 2008, for an attempt to recreate a circumnavigation of Africa, as first accomplished by Phoenician mariners in 600BC. Learn more and download an application form from the Phoenicia website.

Labels: adventure, Africa, archaeology, expedition, Phoenician Ship Expedition, sailing

An eye popping and mind blowing exhibition of antiquities, 'Roman Art from the Louvre', opens on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at the Seattle Art Museum and runs through May 11, 2008.

The exhibition is a sample of the collection held at the French Louvre, said to be the largest collection of Roman art in the world outside of Italy. 'Roman Art from the Louvre' features nearly 200 objects and takes up the entire fourth floor in the south wing of the Seattle Art Museum.

Labels: archaeology, art, Louvre, Museum, Romania, Seattle Art Museum, USA

In Timbuktu, the ancient Malian city nestled between the Niger River and the Sahara Desert, a new library and research institute is being built that will house more than 100,000 ancient manuscripts, representing the history of Africa.

Some of the manuscripts are 1000 years old and cover almost every conceivable subject, revealing a rich intellectual culture.

Timbuktu still takes more than two days to reach by a four-wheel drive vehicle from the Malian capital, Bamako. Read more about the manuscripts and library project.

Labels: Africa, archaeology, Timbuktu

Shipwrecks, pirates and treasure, its the stuff of fantasy and legend but for a company of modern-day treasure hunters, it is a profitable business.

Odyssey Marine Exploration is a leader in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration and not for the first time, they have landed a record breaking haul of treasure. Their latest find includes over 500,000 silver coins weighing more than 17 tons, hundreds of gold coins, worked gold, and other artifacts. It is believed that this recovery constitutes the largest collection of coins ever excavated from a historical shipwreck site, codenamed Black Swan.

The 17th-century treasure is estimated to be worth around $500 million but sorry treasure seekers, the company hasn't posted the geo-location of the site which is some 40 miles south west of England's Lands End.

Labels: archaeology, Cornwall, England, Shipwreck, Treasure