MADRID.- The Fayum Mummy Portraits continue to surprise to this day with their modern sensibility and vitality. Made between the first and fourth centuries A.D. they come from the tomb of Al- Fayum as well as from other places across Egypt, and they ar…
"Waves at Matsushima" at the Sackler Gallery Honor’s Japan’s Beloved Pine Islands
WASHINGTON.- Long revered as one of Japan’s most beautiful sites, Matsushima Bay endured the unleashing of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan March 11. Despite its proximity to the epicenter of the underwater earthquake, the site …
Argentina Intercepts Mailed Pre-Inca Mummy, Skulls
BUENOS AIRES (AP).- The shipping label said the mailed package contained replicas of Peruvian ceramics. An X-ray machine used by customs agents discovered it really held three skulls and a mummy more than 2,000 years old. Authorities said Friday that t…
Maya Funerary Offering Found by Archaeologists in Cenote Near Chichen Itza
MEXICO CITY.- Underwater archaeologists discovered in a cenote near The Castle pyramid at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, a Prehispanic funerary offering deposited in the flooded cave to ask for rain in 9th and 10th centuries, during 2 different drought periods…
Maya Funerary Offering Found by Archaeologists in Cenote Near Chichen Itza
MEXICO CITY.- Underwater archaeologists discovered in a cenote near The Castle pyramid at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, a Prehispanic funerary offering deposited in the flooded cave to ask for rain in 9th and 10th centuries, during 2 different drought periods…
Bonhams to Sell One of the World’s Finest Collections of First Edition & Serial Victorian Literature
LONDON.- Bonhams announces the sale of one of the world’s finest collections of Victorian Literature as published in original parts, and serial publications of the 18th and 19th centuries in New York on October 18th at 1pm. The sale of over 290 lo…
Lost for Two Centuries: Clock Designed for Napoleon’s 1801 Exposition to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- An historic and rare clock believed to have been designed for Napoleon’s ‘Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie Francaise’ in 1801 and which has lain undiscovered in Europe for two centuries, is to be sold at Bonh…
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to major …
Orthodox Jewish Library Seized by Russia Has Jolted US Museums
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to maj…
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to major …