Conference November 12-14, 2006. The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 years of Archaeological Research

Archaeology and Memory in a Multicultural and Highly Contested Environment: Some Lessons from the Jerusalem Virtual Library Project
by Ronnie Ellenblum (Hebrew University) and Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds University)
The Greek word arkh, and hence arkheion, says Derrida, is the root of the Latin archium, archivum, and archaeology. It is both the place were the archons used to live, where the documents were kept, and where the one and only interpretation of law, documents, and history was made.

In the modern and contested world, there are different interpretations for the same evidence, or for the same documents, and the challenge of presenting unbiased or overly biased information is always felt.

We will present the results of our experiment in the multicultural indexing of documents, maps, and images, together with preliminary thoughts about the multicultural presentation of archaeology, where data are not easily separated from political views.
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Sponsors: The Artemis A.W. & Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & The Ancient World, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Program in Ancient Studies, The Ruth & Joseph Moskow Endowment in Judaic Studies, Rhode Island Council for the Humanitites, and other sponsors