I decided to officially archive this blog on the day my DPhil was confirmed. But I have waited for the electronic publication of my thesis, Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus, to announce the archiving. From now on, I will blog at Conflict Antiquities.

UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 4: banner reading "Internationals, will you tell your children about what you were doing in Kosovo?"

UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 3: First World War memorial.

UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 2: Serbian flag and Serbian Orthodox shrine in UNMIK office garden.

UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 1.

Gracanica Monastery gardens.

Old walls of the convent complex consolidated by new barbed wire 2.

Old walls of the convent complex consolidated by new barbed wire 1: this functions to protect the nuns and the soldiers who guard them; it is not possible to take photographs further inside as it may provide intelligence to terrorists and put the residents as risk.

[Updated on the 10th of February 2008.]

Mark Mardell has interviewed Raška and Prizren Diocese Bishop Artemije, the 'bishop behind barbed wire'.

Entrance into the convent complex of Gracanica Monastery.