The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cultural Center and the Country Department for Belize, Central America, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic, will host the exhibit entitled “Heavenly Jade of the Maya” comprising rare jade jewelry and objects from recent archaeological discoveries.The exhibit will commemorate the ending of the Maya calendar cycle (December 21, … An example of a facsimile Context record may be seen here. The display will be open to the public at the IDB Cultural Center Gallery from December 19, 2012 until February 15, 2013. The mausoleum itself was constructed, Meave Leakey: Piecing Together Human Ancestors, Why Researchers Are Using Archaeology to Learn About Osteoarthritis, Archaeology: Up from the Air or Down Below the Water, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsvRi59--IQ. These pieces, shown for the first time outside Guatemala, allow one to appreciate the creative richness of the Maya and prompts us to inquire into the context in which these artistic and religious developments took place. The Gallery of the IDB Cultural Center is located at 1300 New York Avenue NW, in Washington, DC. Archaeology: Up from the Air or Down Below the Water. Work has begun on the development of a web service to provide IADB project data in XML format, possibly with an associated RSS feed. All media inquiries, including interview requests, should be addressed to press@iadb.org. In 1997 development of the IADB moved from SUAT to York Archaeological Trust [2] and shortly afterwards the IADB programs were re-written in Delphi, still using an Access database. Over time, the scope of the IADB has widened to include other digital resources including single context plans, photographs, stratigraphy diagrams, etc. Any number of user-defined tags (analogous to Labels in Google Mail, for example) may be applied to any resources within a project database. The science of archaeology involves all the struggles of researchers to understand what has happened in the past, how people used to live and under what conditions life was endured for different civilisations. It is an old Hellenistic cit, A prehistoric monument situated in Wiltshire, England, Stonehenge consists of a ring of standing stones, each of which stands roughly 4 metres tall, 2, The ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan is located in a sub-valley in the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico, and is situated 40 km, The science of archaeology involves all the struggles of researchers to understand what has happened in the past, how people used to live and under what conditions life was endured for different civilisations. The IADB includes built-in editors for creating and manipulating Structure Diagrams, creating and editing internal documents, and for digitizing single Context plans (from scanned images or using a graphics tablet). Grants from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have funded the development of the IADB as a web publication tool, and grants from the UK JISC have funded the OGHAM and VERA[4] projects for the development of the IADB as a Virtual Research Environment for archaeology using the Silchester project as a test-bed. "More than an exhibition, this represents an encounter with the history and sensibility of one of the most important cultures of the continent," said Moreno. In 1999 work was begun on converting the IADB to a web application using MySQL and PHP. REGIONAL CONTACTS In September 2005, an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme The Material World featured a discussion on the role of the IADB in the Silchester project with particular reference to the development of the IADB as a virtual research environment.