Stop Press

A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.

31 January

• Peru death toll rises to 20 after floods in south
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  The number of people killed in heavy flooding over the past several days in southern Peru has risen to 20, local officials say.

30 January

• UNESCO's Irina Bokova Calls for Ban in Trade in Haitian Artifacts
  Art Daily, United States
  Angela Charlton: The United Nations' culture and education agency called Friday for a ban in the trade of Haitian artifacts to prevent the pillaging of cultural treasures in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake.
  

29 January

• Machu Picchu airlift rescues hundreds of tourists
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links.

• Secret source of a Roman aqueduct discovered
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  The Romans were masters of plumbing on a very grand scale and built massive aqueducts which allowed entire cities to be supplied with fresh water.

• Hallaton Roman coin is 'oldest found in Britain'
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  A silver coin dug up as part of a hoard is the oldest piece of Roman money found in Britain, experts believe.

28 January

• Experts to assess damage in Haiti museums
  Gens de la Caraïbe
  The UN cultural agency UNESCO is sending a team of experts to quake-hit Haiti on Wednesday to assess damage in the Caribbean nation's museums and monuments, its director general said.

• Famous art works thrown away as rubbish
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  Over the next six weeks, hundreds of paintings and sculptures by artists both famous and unknown will be dumped in a see-through container which is five metres tall, six metres wide and fifteen metres long, at the South London Gallery.

• Machu Picchu rail link closure leaves hundreds stranded
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  The damaged railway to Peru's top tourist site, Machu Picchu, will remain closed for three more days as workers struggle to repair it after mudslides.

27 January

• Experts to assess damage
  Straits Times, Singapore
  The UN cultural agency Unesco is sending a team of experts to quake-hit Haiti on Wednesday to assess damage in the Caribbean nation's museums and monuments, its director general said.

26 January

• Peru: Rain, mudslides strand nearly 2000 at Machu Picchu
  New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
  Peru's tourism minister says heavy rain and mudslides have blocked the train route to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, stranding 1,954 tourists.

• Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso
  New York Times, United States
  On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the museum accidentally fell into “The Actor,” causing the tear.

• Haitian leadership vital to post-quake response – UN relief officials
  UN News
  Haitians must have leadership of the post-earthquake recovery process, top United Nations humanitarian officials stressed today as they reported that aid agencies are making important progress in reaching people affected by the disaster.

25 January

• A cultural agony in a nation where art is life
  Miami Herald , United States
  Haiti has lost huge chunks of its artistic culture, with the destruction and damage of historic paintings and murals, along with the deaths of art collectors.

• Art Trove Is Among Nation's Losses
  Wall Street Journal, United States
  Pooja Bhatia: Georges Nader Sr. considers himself lucky: The two rooms of his vast home that survived this month's earthquake were those in which he and his wife were napping. What didn't survive were the 12,000 artworks in the rest of his 35-room mansion, believed to be the world's largest repository of Haitian art.

24 January

• A cultural agony in a nation where art is life
  Los Angeles Times, United States
  Tracy Wilkinson: Haitians rescue works from rubble, grieve the lost and create anew.

23 January

• Cultural Riches Turn to Rubble in Haiti Quake
  New York Times, United States
  Marc Lacey: Long before its ground started heaving, Haiti was already a byword for a broken place.

21 January

• A plan for Haiti
  The Economist, United Kingdom
  More than a week after the earth convulsed beneath it, Haiti has still to plumb the depths of suffering and want. The generosity of the world’s response has also been profound.

20 January

• Heritage in Haiti
  UNESCO News
  While saving lives and providing humanitarian relief remains the absolute priority of the international community in helping Haiti deal with the devastation of the earthquake, information is beginning to arrive about the state of the country’s heritage: the National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers, situated in the north of the country, and about Jacmel, in the southeast.

2 January

• Rome’s newest art museum
  Financial Times, United Kingdom
  Edwin Heathcote: The plan for Rome’s new €150m Maxxi museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, looks like a diagram of a highly complex railway junction.

• Historic Antarctica plane remains 'found' by expedition
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  A team of Australian conservationists say they have found what they believe to be the remains of the first aeroplane ever taken to Antarctica.

1 January

• DNA analysed from early European
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  Paul Rincon: Scientists have analysed DNA extracted from the remains of a 30,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer.

updated on: 15 April, 2010