RAMALLAH (AP).- A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso’s 1943 “Buste de Femme” is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers sai…
Palestinian Makes Artistic Mark on Passports
By: Jihan Abdalla
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (REUTERS).- It is like no other passport control on earth. No stern official sitting behind a glass wall, no scanning of travel documents, no terse questions about where you are going. Instead, a lone artist greet…
Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Amenhotep III Unearthed by Archaeologists in Egypt
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) t…
Picasso Loan to Palestinian Art Academy Suffers Complicated Obstacles
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Palestinian art academy is preparing to spruce itself up for a famous guest: a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece that would be the first displayed in the West Bank. But simply arranging the painting’s journey remains a far more di…
Picasso Loan to Palestinian Art Academy Suffers Complicated Obstacles
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Palestinian art academy is preparing to spruce itself up for a famous guest: a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece that would be the first displayed in the West Bank. But simply arranging the painting’s journey remains a far more di…
Just a Few Months Before Opening, Minefields Circle Jesus’ Traditional Baptism Site
QASR EL-YAHUD (AP).- Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity’s holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands of land mines. Israel says the sites visite…
Just a Few Months Before Opening, Minefields Circle Jesus’ Traditional Baptism Site
QASR EL-YAHUD (AP).- Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity’s holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands of land mines. Israel says the sites visite…
Egypt: Missing Pieces of Colossal Statue Unearthed
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists have unearthed six missing pieces from a 3,400-year-old colossal double statue of a powerful pharaoh and his queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Sunday the fragments of the statue of Amenhotep III …
Egypt: Archaeologists Unearth 3,400 Pharaoh Statue
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities chief says archaeologists have unearthed the upper half of a red granite statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago. Zahi Hawass says the statue was discovered on Thursday at the site of the funerary …
Egypt: Archaeologists Unearth 3,400 Pharaoh Statue
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities chief says archaeologists have unearthed the upper half of a red granite statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago. Zahi Hawass says the statue was discovered on Thursday at the site of the funerary …