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News from the media: December 2008
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A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.

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30 December

  • Festival revitalizes cultural heritage
    The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
    The Gajah Mada Town Festival (GMTF) brought Denpasar to its traditional pluralistic roots Sunday as hundreds feasted on Balinese traditional food and enjoyed street parades and attractions offered by the city's various ethnicities on Jl.

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29 December

  • Artistic clues to coastal change
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Julian Siddle: Nineteenth Century artwork is a useful tool for studying coastal erosion, according to a retired coastal engineer.
  • Under threat
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Brazilian plans to preserve traditional fishing village.
  • Ancient sarcophagus found
    Zeenews, India
    A team of archaeologists in Syria has claimed to have found a Roman-era stone sarcophagus carved with faces of women and images of flowers, a lion and a bull.
  • Ancient graves found accidentally
    Hürriyet, Turkey
    Two ancient graves, dating back to the 7th century B.C., have been uncovered during construction of a cesspool at the house of Mehmet Çoban in the Damlıboğaz village of Muğla's Milas district, which hosts the ancient city of Hydai.

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28 December

  • Smuggled statues
    Express India, Pakistan
    The archaeology department has confirmed that two Gandhara statues, representing the Buddha, which were seized by customs in Karachi whose personnel prevented them from being smuggle to china, are indeed antiques.
  • Orient Express jolted on route to Machu Picchu
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Naomi Mapstone: The high-altitude railway to Machu Picchu, Peru’s fabled lost city of the Incas, is at the centre of a bitter antitrust row between Orient Express, the luxury hotel and train operator, the Peruvian government and rival rail consortiums.

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27 December

  • Prince Charles to the rescue of Britain's heritage
    The Telegraph, United Kingdom
    Tim Walker: Frustrated by what he sees as the Government's neglect of Britain's heritage, the Prince of Wales is dramatically to expand the activities of his charity, The Prince's Regeneration Trust.
  • Argentine dig unearths tango cafe
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Archaeologists in Argentina have found the remains of a famous tango cafe which operated in Buenos Aires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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26 December

  • Egypt could jail Australian dealer for 15 years
    Walcha News, Australia
    Selma Milovanovic: An Australian antiques dealer has been arrested in Egypt for allegedly trying to smuggle two 2300-year-old animal mummies and religious figurines out of the country.
  • Arte falsificado, problema creciente
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    David Willey: La policía de Italia dijo que, en los últimos tres años, ha confiscado casi 40.000 obras de arte falsificadas.
  • El superdepredador del Metro
    ABC.es, Spain
    Mercedes Contreras: Las obras de Metro en Carpetana han servido para hallar el primer resto de un superdepredador que vivió hace 14 millones de años. Se han recuperado 5.000 restos de macrovertebrados.

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25 December

  • Plans to save our heritage
    WalesOnline, United Kingdom
    Samantha Mendez: Massive plans for Merthyr Tydfil’s heritage sites and historic buildings have been put forward by experts in a bid to save our heritage.
  • Projects to awaken Islamic cultural heritage
    Hürriyet, Turkey
    Dr. Halit Eren, general director at the Research Centre for the Islamic History, Art and Culture, or IRCICA, said with new significant projects, the center would awaken the historical and cultural heritage of Islam.
  • Call her Dr. Kawananakoa, for helping preserve heritage
    Honolulu Advertiser, United States
    The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents has approved the conferral of an honorary degree upon Princess Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, the great-grand niece of King David Kalakaua and Queen Kapi'olani.

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24 December

  • EU's new online library reopens
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The European Union's huge digital library Europeana, which crashed last month just hours after its launch, is back online.
  • Gouvernante pour le développement du secteur
    Angola Press, Angola
    La ministre de la Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva, a fait état mardi, à Luanda, de la formation technico-professionnelle des cadres et de la consolidation des structures culturelles, comme bases fondamentales de l'enseignement des arts, de la culture et du développement du secteur.
  • Le patrimoine ressource économique
    Al-Ahram Hebdo, Egypt
    L’investissement dans l’héritage culturel a été le thème d’une conférence internationale tenue à la Bibliotheca Alexandrina avec une vision élargie du domaine d’application et la nécessité d’affronter la crise financière mondiale.
  • Turista descubre tesoro en Israel
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Katya Adler: Una arqueóloga aficionada británica descubrió unas 300 monedas de oro del Siglo VII en una excavación justo fuera de la Ciudad Vieja de Jerusalén.

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23 December

  • Selling Egyptian Antiquities
    SAFECorner, United Kingdom
    David Gill: In August 2007 I speculated about the scale of the market in antiquities. I have now posted some analyses of the scale of the market based on Sotheby's New York.
  • Pair of tombs discovered in Egypt
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Egyptian archaeologists say they have discovered a pair of 4,300-year-old tombs that indicate a burial site south of Cairo is bigger than expected.
  • 4,000 year-old tombs found at construction site in Son La
    Vov News, Vietnam
    Seven tombs dating back about 4,000 years have been found recently at the site to build the reservoir of the Son La hydroelectric-power plant in Chieng Bang commune, Quynh Nhai district in the northern mountainous province of Son La.
  • Satellites unearthing ancient Egyptian ruins
    CNN, United States
    Cameron Tankersley: Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.
  • Tangled web of spider evolution
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The species once described as the world's oldest spider is a more primitive version of the web-spinning modern spider, scientists have found.
  • British tourist unearths treasure
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    An amateur British archaeologist has discovered almost 300 gold coins dating from the 7th Century at a dig just outside Jerusalem's Old City.
  • Des archives aux mains de détenues
    Le Monde, France
    Il est 7 h 30, lorsque Evelyne (les prénoms des détenues ont été changés) s'installe à sa table de montage. Comme chaque matin, la jeune femme dispose devant elle ses outils de travail : vieilles boîtes en fer avec ses films 16 mm, colleuse manuelle, lame coupante, produits nettoyants, compteur, et un gant blanc qu'elle enfile délicatement sur sa main gauche.
  • Teotihuacán: piden retirar luz y sonido
    El Universal, Mexico
    Juan Arvizu: Suspender de inmediato las obras de instalación de equipos para un espectáculo de luz y sonido, que se llevan a cabo en la zona arqueológica de Teotihuacán, estado de México, solicitó la Comisión Permanente del Congreso a la Secretaría de Educación Pública.
  • Cómo cambió la vida en la Tierra
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Sabemos que en 3.500 millones de años, la vida en la Tierra ha evolucionado desde organismos unicelulares a gigantescas secuoyas y ballenas azules.
  • El bote... ¿de Jesús?
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Jana Beris: Un bote antiguo revolucionó años atrás a la Galilea, en el norte de Israel, y sigue atrayendo grandes cantidades de personas del mundo entero.

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22 December

  • L’héritage culturel méditerranéen mis en valeur
    La Tribune d'Algérie, Algeria
    A l’occasion du lancement du site Internet «Qantara-Patrimoine méditerranéen : traversées d’Orient et d’Occident» (wwwqantara-med.org), le ministère de la Culture et l’IMA (Institut du Monde arabe à Paris) ont organisé une conférence de presse, hier, au palais des Rais (le Bastion 23) où se poursuit jusqu’au 31 janvier l’exposition Qantara.

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21 December

  • Haryana village settles atop Mauryan empire, ASI in a quandary
    The Times, India
    POLARH (KAITHAL): Unknown to them, 3,500 people have been living in a village in Haryana, which has turned out to be the ruins of the Mauryan empire, a 2000-year-old civilization the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) now wants to unearth.
  • Dicen patrimonio arqueológico se halla disperso
    La Raza, United States
    El director ejecutivo del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, José Luis Vega, dijo ayer que gran parte del patrimonio arqueológico de Puerto Rico se encuentra al presente disperso en y fuera del país.

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20 December

  • Précieuses pièces aztèques
    La Monde, France
    Le Mexique est parti en guerre contre les ventes de ses objets précolombiens. Pour la deuxième fois en trois mois, la police française a saisi, mercredi 17 décembre, une série de pièces aztèques à quelques heures de leur vente à Drouot par le commissaire-priseur Jean-Claude Binoche.

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19 December

  • 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist
    Science News, United States
    University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological mysteries in recent history -- that fossilized skeletons resembling a mythical "hobbit" creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain.
  • Taking trophy heads close to home
    Science News, United States
    Bruce Bower: New evidence suggests that an ancient South American culture obtained ritual skulls by killing and beheading some of its own people, not foreign warriors.
  • Vittorio Sgarbi, le maître des ruines
    Le Monde, France
    Sur la grande terrasse de la mairie de Salemi (Sicile) sont réunis le maire, Vittorio Sgarbi, 56 ans, quelques-uns de ses adjoints, un reporter de la BBC, une journaliste du Giornale di Sicilia, et l'envoyé spécial du Monde.
  • Jolly Boatman site plans approved
    The Guardian, United Kingdom
    Chris Wickham: The controversial plan to develop on the derelict Jolly Boatman site opposite Hampton Court Palace was given the final go-ahead, at an extraordinary full council meeting last night.
  • $4 Million Gift for NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts
    NY Times, United States
    Dave Itzkoff: The collapsing economy hasn’t completely discouraged acts of philanthropy: on Friday, New York University announced that its Institute of Fine Arts had received a gift of $4 million from the real-estate developer Sheldon H. Solow.
  • Top ten archaeology finds: Most Read of 2008
    National Geographic, United States
    Lost cities, baffling pyramids, and ancient graveyards are just some of the mysteries covered in National Geographic News's most viewed archaeology stories of 2008.

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18 December

  • Ancient ruins may reveal fate of Moche sex and sacrifice culture
    The Times, United Kingdom
    Chris Ayres: Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient city that they hope might finally answer questions about the fate of the Moche culture — best known for the ceremonial sex acts and ritualistic human sacrifices depicted on its pottery.
  • Preservation project for Swedish wreck
    Dive Magazine, United States
    An 18-million-kronor (£1.5million) project to preserve a 380-year-old Swedish shipwreck has been announced by the Swedish Research Council.
  • Huge Dinosaur and Pterosaur Found in Sahara
    National Geographic, United States
    Africa's Sahara desert has yielded two potentially new prehistoric species to explorers who traveled 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) over mountains and through sandstorms to a site in southeastern Morocco.
  • Une mémoire en sursis à Béjaïa
    La Tribune d'Algérie, Algeria
    Kamel Amghar: Le secteur de la culture amorce une dynamique nouvelle. Il y a un plus évident en matière d’animation et de manifestations à caractère national ou régional.

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17 December

  • Ancient Mass Graves of Soldiers, Babies Found in Italy
    National Geographic, United States
    Maria Cristina Valsecchi: More than 10,000 graves containing ancient amphorae, "baby bottles," and the bodies of soldiers who fought the Carthaginians were found near the ancient Greek colony of Himera, in Italy, archaeologists announced recently.
  • Farmer digs up ancient sanctuary in Italy
    MSNBC, United States
    A farmer working his land south of Rome dug up hundreds of artifacts from a 2,600-year-old sanctuary, but ran afoul of police when he tried to sell the ancient hoard, officials said Wednesday.
  • Hallan ciudadela perdida en Perú
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    El complejo descubierto cerca de la norteña ciudad de Chiclayo sería el más claro vínculo entre las culturas Moche y Wari encontrado hasta el momento.
  • El arte de salvar el Patrimonio
    ABC.es, Spain
    Más de 200 personas entre bomberos, Ejército,Guardia Civil, Policía, Protección Civil y personal sanitario de la Junta de Castilla y León participaron en el macrosimulacro efectuado ayer en el Alcázar de Segovia, como colofón a los dos años de intenso trabajo que han llevado a cabo las Ciudades españolas Patrimonio de la Humanidad para establecer, por primera vez, un protocolo de actuación en casos de incendio o catástrofe en sus cascos históricos.

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16 December

  • Restore Incan Heritage
    Hartford Courant, United States
    Yale University has no moral or legal justification for hanging on to thousands of bone fragments and other artifacts dug up by a professor a century ago from the ancient Inca ruin of Machu Picchu.
  • Transformer une contrainte en opportunité : Création d’un grand centre de conservation
    Ministère de la Culture, France
    Le risque de crue exceptionnelle de la Seine a conduit le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication à lancer un projet de création d’un centre de réserves, de restauration, d’étude et de recherche au profit de ses institutions situées en bord de Seine et, plus largement, des musées qui pourraient avoir besoin d’un tel équipement.

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15 December

  • Europeana ou l'Europe en pixels
    Nouvelleurope, France
    Liza Belozerova: Le jour de son ouverture, le 20 novembre, le portail d'Europeana, la bibliothèque numérique européenne, s'est écroulé sous le poids du nombre de connexions, montrant ainsi l'intérêt des Européens envers leur culture.
  • El hombre invisible que salva arte
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Simon Worrall: En total, somos un centenar personas las que atiborramos un restaurante en Upper Holemsburg, Filadelfia, entre ellas, expertos en arte, curadores, jefes de seguridad de museos y una falange de agentes del FBI con pistolas Glocks de 9 mm ocultas bajo sus trajes.

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14 December

  • Stone Age Japan
    Japan Times, Japan
    Michael Hoffman: "The earliest known Jomon man," writes J. Edward Kidder Jr. in "The Cambridge History of Japan," "was uncovered in 1949.
  • Zhangjiakou va voir son ancien relais postal rénové
    CCTV Journal, China
    Située au nord de la capitale chinoise, Zhangjiakou est l'une des plus anciennes villes commerciales dans le nord du pays. Cette semaine, le gouvernement local a lancé un projet pour rénover l'ancien relais postal de la ville.

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13 December

  • Egyptian Team Works to Uncover Statue of Pharaoh
    The Voice of America, United States
    Edward Yeranian: An archeological team, under the direction of Egypt's well-known Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, has begun uncovering rubble under which the largest known statue of Pharaoh Ramses II is buried in the southern Egyptian town of Sohag.
  • The invisible man rescuing art
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Simon Worrall: There are about 100 of us packed into a restaurant in Upper Holmesburg, Philadelphia - art experts and curators, museum security chiefs, and a phalanx of FBI agents with 9mm Glocks concealed under their G-man suits.
  • Miles de dólares por arte de "baño"
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Dos obras del célebre ilustrador victoriano Aubrey Beardsley se vendieron en subasta por más de US$355.000, después de haber sido descubiertas en el baño de un jubilado.

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12 December

  • Beardsley drawings fetch $355,500
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Two illustrations by artist Aubrey Beardsley have sold for $355,500 (£240,000) at auction, after being discovered in a pensioner's bathroom.
  • L'avenir des réserves des musées parisiens se précise
    Le Figaro, France
    Claire Bommelaer: Où mettre les réserves des musées ? Confrontés à un risque de débordement de la Seine, sept des plus grands musées de France (et peut-être aussi Beaubourg) sont engagés depuis six mois dans un projet de centre de conservation et de réserves...
  • Italie: De l'art de gérer la culture comme un McDo
    Courrier International, France
    Les coupes budgétaires décidées par un gouvernement qui considère la culture comme un produit marketing menacent la principale richesse de la péninsule. Reportage en Toscane.

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11 December

  • Petition signed to save heritage buildings
    Jakarta Post, Indonesia
    Mariani Dewi: eritage building lovers, architects and historians will send a petition to the Tangerang mayor Friday, urging him to stop the demolition of a 19th-century housing complex in Karawaci, Tangerang.
  • Italie - Fast-food culturel
    Le Point, France
    Dominique Dunglas: L'Italie transformée en fast-food de la culture : c'est la crainte de nombreux intellectuels de la péninsule après la nomination de Mario Resca à la direction des musées transalpins.

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10 December

  • Secrets of important Roman site set to be unveiled
    The Westmorland Gazette, United Kingdom
    Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd today announced the purchase of one of the most significant but least researched sites along the Roman frontier in the north of England.

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9 December

  • Centre push for heritage revival
    Times of India, India
    The Centre might soon take up restoration and conservation of 56 heritage buildings in the city. Union home minister P Chidambaram announced this at the foundation stone laying ceremony for restoration of the old mint on Strand Road.
  • "Après les ksour, sauvons la palmeraie "
    Journal3, Algeria
    Car la transmission de génération en génération du génie fondateur de la pentapôle, c’est-à-dire de l’architecture des anciens ksour, particulière et parfaitement adaptée à l’environnement, est assurée par un encadrement technique suivi et éclairé de l’OPVM, rendu plus opérationnel depuis le classement en 2005 de la vallée du M’zab comme « secteur sauvegardé ».
  • La Chine protège son patrimoine culturel en le numérisant
    Chine-informations.com, France
    La Chine s'efforce de protéger son patrimoine culturel tangible et intangible par l'intervention des technologies numériques, ont déclaré mardi des spécialistes lors d'un forum qui s'est tenu à Beijing.

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8 December

  • Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture?
    National Geographic, United States
    Alexis Okeowo: Several stone sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in the region, archaeologists say.
  • McCall Smith and Clifford attack plan for £40m hotel in Edinburgh Old Town
    The Times, United Kingdom
    Plans for a £40 million hotel in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town have been attacked for destroying the “rhythm and elegance” of the city centre by the novelist Alexander McCall Smith and Sir Timothy Clifford, the former director general of the National Galleries of Scotland.

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6 December

  • Monuments historiques disparus: doit-on tout reconstruire ?
    Yahoo News, France
    Hier Dresde et le Parlement de Bretagne à Rennes, aujourd'hui le château de Lunéville et celui de Berlin, demain peut-être le palais des Tuileries à Paris. Après la destruction d'un monument historique, doit-on tout reconstruire ? Le débat est lancé en France.

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5 December

  • Patricia Díaz... En función del patrimonio
    El Universo, Colombia
    “A Cartagena vienen los turistas por el patrimonio, esos sitios son los que más captan la atención”, indica Patricia Díaz, una arquitecta restauradora que se ha dedicado en la última década a promover el amor por estas riquezas que le han dado a la ciudad su encanto.

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4 December

  • Ancient supernova mystery solved
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    James Morgan: In 1572, a "new star" appeared in the sky which stunned astronomers and exploded ancient theories of the universe.
  • Lo que comían los antiguos peruanos
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    María Elena Navas: Nadie hubiera pensado que no lavarse los dientes habría dado lugar a la primera evidencia científica de lo que comieron los peruanos hace 9.000 años.

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3 December

  • New flying reptile species found
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan the size of a family car has been uncovered by scientists.
  • Béthanie Wins UNESCO Heritage Award
    UNESCO News
    Béthanie - the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Landmark Heritage Campus has been awarded an Honourable Mention at the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards.
  • Béthanie remporte le Prix UNESCO du patrimoine
    UNESCO News
    Béthanie - le Campus de l’Académie de Hong Kong pour les Arts du spectacle et le Patrimoine a été récompensée de la Mention Honorable lors des Prix UNESCO pour le patrimoine culturel de la région Asie-Pacific 2008.
  • Le devoir de transmettre
    Nation.dj, Djibouti
    Dans le cadre du projet de sauvegarde des jeux traditionnels afars et somalis de la Corne d'Afrique, l'université de Djibouti a...
  • 'Ondarenet' recogerá el patrimonio digital y digitalizará el bibliográfico
    Diario Vasco, Spain
    Ondarenet, un proyecto que ha decidido poner en marcha el Gobierno Vasco, capturará, conservará y difundirá los recursos digitales (páginas web, blogs, foros o listas de distribución...) que merezcan pasar a formar parte del patrimonio digital vasco y, a más largo plazo, contribuirá a la creación de la Biblioteca Digital Vasca completando la digitalización de los fondos bibliográficos generados a lo largo de la historia en el soporte tradicional del papel.
  • Premio a la conservación y gestión del patrimonio emeritense
    Extremadura 24 horas, Spain
    Es fruto del esfuerzo y celo profesional de los trabajadores del Consorcio Ciudad Monumental Histórico-Artística como de los ciudadano de la capital autonómica por cuidar y respetar cada día el rico patrimonio que les rodea.

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2 December

  • Combien « coûte » la culture privée ?
    Le Monde, France
    Maraval: Dans sa chronique d’abonné Avec moins d'argent public, la culture française est-elle condamnée ?, Guillaume Vuillemey, de l’Institut économique Molinari, ressort, comme il est étrangement de mode en ce moment, le combat entre le bien public et le bon privé, la culture ruineuse du public, la culture aimée des foules du privé.
  • Comment vas-tu Casbah?
    L'Expression, Algeria
    Des milliers de personnes vivent dans une peur permanente et avec le spectre des effondrements, qui plane hiver comme été.
  • 7000 firme in difesa dei beni culturali
    Informazione.it, Italy
    Le numerose modifiche che, secondo la notizia ribattuta dall’Ansa del 1 dicembre 2008 ore 16.57, sarebbero state introdotte dal Ministro Bondi allo schema di DPR per la riforma del MIBAC, e la nuova convocazione del Consiglio Superiore dei Beni Culturali per il giorno 4 dicembre allo scopo di discutere tali modifiche, sono da ritenersi anche come un esito della imponente adesione all’ “Appello per la salvaguardia dei musei e dei beni archeologici e artistici in Italia”.
  • El patrimonio arqueológico es destruido por los saqueadores
    Listín Diario, Dominican Republic
    Javier Valdivia: El cielo medio nublado presagia lluvia en esta parte de la Cordillera Septentrional, pero nada inquieta a Jorge Ulloa, un experto del Museo del Hombre Dominicano (MHD) que examina vestigios precolombinos del más reciente e importante hallazgo arqueológico reportado en República Dominicana.

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updated on: 30 December, 2008

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