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A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.
28 October
- The map that changed the world
BBC News, United Kingdom
Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun.
27 October
- Destroying art for art's sake
BBC News, United Kingdom
Lawrence Pollard: Many of the art attacks carried out by individuals lurch between lunacy and criminality - the man who attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican with a hammer, while shouting "I am Jesus" is seen as a lunatic.
- Colossal 'sea monster' unearthed
BBC News, United Kingdom
Rebecca Morelle: The fossilised skull of a colossal "sea monster" has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast.
23 October
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Architectural attention seekers
Financial Times, United Kingdom
Rebecca Knight: Two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s domestic structures, an ageing sanatorium in the town of Tombeek, Belgium and a 16th-century castle in central India that once served as a royal residence are among the 100 most endangered architectural and cultural sites around the world, according to the World Monuments Fund (WMF).
22 October
- Winner of £60k Prix Pictet prize for environmental photographer named
Click Greens, United Kingdom
Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and former Secretary General of the United Nations, has awarded this year’s prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability to British based photographer Nadav Kander and a photography commission to American photographer Ed Kashi at the Passage de Retz in Paris.
19 October
- Audio slideshow: The first silver screen
BBC News, United Kingdom
British cinema was born in a hall on Regent Street in central London in 1896 - when the Lumiere brothers put on the first public show of moving pictures in the UK.
The space - now part of the University of Westminster - could be about to be restored to its original glory, thanks to a million pound donation from a Saudi billionaire.
12 October
- Unseen Mary Rose relics unveiled
BBC News, United Kingdom
Carefully preserved relics revealing what life was like on board Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, have been revealed for the first time.
- Heritage of Alms - Sad Plight of Sub-Saharan States
AllAfrica
Underfunding and shortage of professionals are the main hurdles facing conservation of world heritage sites in sub-Saharan Africa, experts say. The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property director general, Mounir Bouchenaki, said conservation of heritage sites will not be sustainable if African states continue relying on donor funds.
9 October
- Louvre to return Egyptian frescos
BBC News, United Kingdom
The Louvre museum in Paris will return five ancient fresco fragments to Egypt within weeks, France's government says.
7 October
- Dinosaur prints found in France
BBC News, United Kingdom
French fossil hunters have discovered huge dinosaur footprints, said to be among the biggest in the world.
2 October
- Fossil finds extend human story
BBC News, United Kingdom
An ancient human-like creature that may be a direct ancestor to our species has been described by researchers.
1 October
- Dinosaur eggs are found in India
BBC News, United Kingdom
Jyotsna Singh: Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old.
- UK dig finds Roman amphitheatre
BBC News, United Kingdom
British archaeologists have unearthed an amphitheatre at a ancient port outside Rome which may have played host to emperors such as Hadrian and Trajan.
updated on:
3 November, 2009
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