Italian-Israeli symposium on archaeology and agriculture
(AGI) Rome, Sept 30 - Both Italy and Israel hold pricelessarchaeological collections of incalculable historic, culturaland social importance, on which the foundations of Westerncivilisation are based. The theme of Expo 2015 is food and itscorollaries - cutting edge technologies used in developingagriculture and irrigation. A symposium involving Italy andIsrael is being held on Oct. 7 and 8 in the Israel Pavilion atExpo, an ideal setting, and will focus on identifying the mostancient roots of these technologies in Italian and Israeliculture. The symposium, which links archaeology to the modernday, has been