CAIRO (AP).- A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a statue of the ancient Egyptian king Amenhotep III at his funerary temple in Luxor. The 2.5-meter alabaster head of the 18th dynastic king remains intact, Zahi Hawass, antiquiti…
Keats Love Letter to Return to Keats House Following Successful City of London Corporation Bid
LONDON.- The City of London Corporation, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has bought a love letter written by the poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne at Wentworth Place (now Keats House) in 1820. The letter was bought at auction in London for
That’s Kate Middleton? Critics Slam Commemorative Wedding Coin Issued by the Royal Mint
LONDON (AP).- Britain’s Royal Mint has released a commemorative coin featuring supposedly lifelike portraits of Prince William and his bride-to-be — but critics say Kate Middleton has a right to be horrified. Images of the couple on the memento be…
That’s Kate Middleton? Critics Slam Commemorative Wedding Coin Issued by the Royal Mint
LONDON (AP).- Britain’s Royal Mint has released a commemorative coin featuring supposedly lifelike portraits of Prince William and his bride-to-be — but critics say Kate Middleton has a right to be horrified. Images of the couple on the memento be…
Audrey Hepburn Stamps Fetch $606,000 to Help Educate Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
BERLIN (AP).- A rare sheet of 10 stamps depicting Audrey Hepburn fetched euro430,000 ($606,000) at a charity auction in Berlin on Saturday, two-thirds of which will go to help educate children in sub-Saharan Africa. The mint-condition sheet of 10 stam…
Exhibit in North Carolina Shows the Real George Washington
RALEIGH, NC.- There’s the George Washington made famous in the Gilbert Stuart portrait found in many elementary schools and, in engraved fashion, on the $1-dollar bill: a severe man, whose severity is accentuated by thin, taut lips. And then, there’s t…
Exhibit in North Carolina Shows the Real George Washington
RALEIGH, NC.- There’s the George Washington made famous in the Gilbert Stuart portrait found in many elementary schools and, in engraved fashion, on the $1-dollar bill: a severe man, whose severity is accentuated by thin, taut lips. And then, there’s t…
Espace Dali Lends Mae West Sofa to the Pompidou Centre in Paris
PARIS.- Espace Dali in Paris, France’s only museum
dedicated to Dali, has loaned the iconic Mae West Divano, created by the Catalan
genius during the 1940’s, to be part of the ‘Dreamlands’ exhibition organised by
the Pompidou Centre,…