MADRID (AP).- Spanish investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of the country’s most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, a police statement said Friday. The oil on canvas works, Goya’s 18th-century “The Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar…
Minister Zahi Hawass Says Eighteen Items Missing from Egyptian Museum After Unrest
CAIRO (AP).- A full inventory of the Egyptian Museum has found that looters escaped with 18 items during the anti-government unrest, including two gilded wooden statues of famed boy king Tutankhamun, the antiquities chief said Sunday. The 18-day uprisi…
Virginia Historian Thomas P. Lowry Denies Tampering with Abraham Lincoln Pardon
McLEAN, VA (AP).- Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him. The accused historian —…
Ancient Skulls Mailed to Brigham Young University
PROVO (AP).- The Utah state archaeologist has determined the age of three mystery skulls mailed to Brigham Young University. KSL-TV reports the skulls were determined to be from about 1100 to 1300 A.D. That fits with the early suspicions of investig…
Newspaper’s Revelation Rocks Civil Rights Photographer Ernest C. Withers’ Family
MEMPHIS (AP).- The startling revelation that a revered civil rights photographer also was an FBI informant who tipped investigators about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others has left his children denying he was a snitch and spurred some movement…
Newspaper’s Revelation Rocks Civil Rights Photographer Ernest C. Withers’ Family
MEMPHIS (AP).- The startling revelation that a revered civil rights photographer also was an FBI informant who tipped investigators about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others has left his children denying he was a snitch and spurred some movement…
Official: Missing Painting Found by New York City Doorman
NEW YORK (AP).- A doorman who works across from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found a painting outside his building and kept it for weeks, then realized it was a missing work at the center of a bizarre legal web and turned it in to investigator…
Official: Missing Painting Found by New York City Doorman
NEW YORK (AP).- A doorman who works across from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found a painting outside his building and kept it for weeks, then realized it was a missing work at the center of a bizarre legal web and turned it in to investigator…
Eleven Egyptian Officials to Be Tried in Van Gogh Theft
CAIRO (AP).- Eleven culture officials from Egypt’s government have been formally charged in last month’s theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum that had no functioning security alarms. The public prosecutor says he has referred the e…
Eleven Egyptian Officials to Be Tried in Van Gogh Theft
CAIRO (AP).- Eleven culture officials from Egypt’s government have been formally charged in last month’s theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum that had no functioning security alarms. The public prosecutor says he has referred the e…