TEL AVIV.- Maïa Zer’s paintings are based on the observation of nature, and on an attempt to capture the fleeting and the ephemeral. In the series of portraits and landscape paintings featured in this exhibition, the artist documents her immediat…
Tours of the Romantic Abbey Ruins Launched this Summer at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
EDINBURGH.- The abbey was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland for the Augustinian Canons. According to medieval legend, a vision of a stag with a cross glowing between its antlers came to David while hunting in the area. Interpreting this as …
Archaeologists Say Tiny Shard Bears Oldest Script Found in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP).- Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem. Dig director Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University says the 2-centimeter (0.8-inch) lon…
One of the Most Emblematic Pieces, the Millenary Maya Stela will Be Complete Again
MEXICO CITY.- With more than 2,000 years of age, the stela that depicts the “Divine Lords of Tonina Creating the Universe”, one of the most emblematic pieces at Maya Hall of the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) will appear complete once …
The Wellcome Collection ~ A $60 Mil Jigsaw Puzzle Museum
LONDON — The classical facade of the Wellcome Collection here makes it seem as if this museum, which opened last June, were going to treat medical history the way the nearby British Museum treats Greek and Near Eastern civilizations, with an orde…
Italian Researchers Think they Have Found Caravaggio’s Bones
ROME (AP).- Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of Caravaggio, but 400 years later some of the mysteries surrounding the death of the artist may never be solved. After a year of digging and analyzing centuries-old bones, the resear…