LOS ANGELES (AP).- A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago and a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face, a woman who had tuberculosis, a child who had a heart condition and a youngst…
Owen and Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Art Donated to the Hood Museum of Art
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College announced an important private gift of contemporary Aboriginal art. Will Owen and Harvey Wagner have gifted over three hundred works to the museum, representing the many exciting contemporary ar…
MIT Museum’s Polaroid Exhibit to Feature Exclusive Lady Gaga Polaroid Photograph
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Polaroid today gathered at the MIT Museum to celebrate the brand’s rich 73-year history and bright future. Polaroid presented an exclusive photo of Lady Gaga, Polaroid’s Creative Director, to the MIT Museum that will become a part of th…
French Engineer Saves Damascus Treasures
By: Khaled Yacoub Oweis
DAMASCUS (REUTERS).- When French engineer Jacques Montlucon bought one of the famed, centuries-old courtyard houses of Old Damascus six years ago he had no idea it contained an architectural marvel. But Montlucon, who has restor…
United States Returns 7 Stolen Ancient Cambodian Sculptures
PHNOM PENH (AP).- The United States returned seven sculptures from the great Angkorian era on Thursday that had been smuggled out of Cambodia. Cambodian Buddhist monks blessed the artifacts during a handover ceremony at the port of Sihanoukville, said …
Initial Stages of New Egypt Museum Completed
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s massive new museum for its famous antiquities now has a power plant, a fire station and its own conservation center, and over the next two years it will become home to some 100,000 artifacts, officials said Monday. A partial openin…
Italian Police Recover Hoard of Looted Artifacts Dug From Tombs
ROME (AP).- Italian police have broken up a ring
of looters who raided tombs for ancient artifacts and exported them illegally to
countries including the United States, officials said Friday. During
more than a year of investigations, authorities recovered nearly 1,700 statues,
vases and other artifacts dating from pre-Roman times to the heyday of the
empire. Police flagged 19 people for possible investigation by
prosecutors. The artifacts were mainly dug out from tombs in the areas
around Naples and Venice and included a bronze bust of the emperor Augustus,
customs police in Rome said.