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A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.
27 February
- M 8.8 Earthquake strikes Chile
Global Risk Forum
On Saturday, February 27th, at 3:34 am local time, a devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
26 February
- Lasers lift dirt of ages from artworks
BBC News, United Kingdom
Doreen Walton: Physicists have applied the same laser techniques commonly used for tattoo removal to clean several famous works of art, including wall paintings.
25 February
24 February
- Pair settle 'lost Titian' claim
BBC News, United Kingdom
Christie's has reached an out of court settlement after selling a painting for £8,000 which turned out to be a lost original Titian worth up to £4m.
21 February
- Still Here: Scourge As Old as King Tut
New York Times, United States
John Noble Wilford: A post-mortem on Tutankhamen's mummy, scientists reported last week, shows that malaria was one of the most probable agents of his death at age 19, in the 14th century B.C.
- 15 000 pièces pillées du patrimoine Irakien : L’autre crime contre l’humanité
Le Courrier d'Algérie
Afin d’en savoir davantage sur la sauvegarde et la restitution du patrimoine culturel et historique irakien, nous nous sommes adressés à Mounir Bouchenaki, ancien Directeur du Patrimoine Culturel Algérien (1974-1982), fort d’une expérience de vingt cinq ans au sein de l’UNESCO notamment en tant que Sous-directeur Général pour la Culture, poste occupé pendant l’invasion de l’Irak, et aujourd’hui Directeur Général du Centre International d’Études pour la Conservation et la Restauration des Biens Culturels (ICCROM) basé en Italie.
20 February
- Reviving Afghanistan's ancient crafts
Financial Times, United Kingdom
Turquoise Mountain, a non-profitmaking group that employs local artisans and craftspeople in Afghanistan, aims to restore Kabul’s historic districts.
17 February
- Malaria Is a Likely Killer in King Tut’s Post-Mortem
New York Times, United States
John Noble Wilford: King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh, was frail and lame and suffered ''multiple disorders'' when he died at age 19 about 1324 B.C., but scientists have now determined the most likely agents of death: a severe bout of malaria combined with a degenerative bone condition.
16 February
15 February
- Save, don't bulldoze, Haiti's heritage
Barker City Herald, United States
Angela Charlton: Haiti's historical heritage risks being bulldozed in the push to rebuild towns and cities flattened by last month's earthquake, a leading cultural official warned Monday.
- Protecting the Past
BBC Radio, United Kingdom
Alice Roberts: All over the world conservators and policy makers are pondering the implications of global warming for our most important heritage sites. Alice visits three sites to investigate possible responses to the problem.
12 February
11 February
- Hiding a Hollywood Symbol, to Make It More Visible
NY Times, United States
Jennifer Steinhauer: Decades ago, Howard Hughes bought a bunch of land behind the world-famous Hollywood sign with the intent of ensconcing his lover Ginger Rogers in a mansion in its hilltop shadow.
10 February
8 February
6 February
- En la búsqueda de valiosas piezas robadas
IP Paraguay
La Dirección de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos, con apoyo de los medios de comunicación y de la ciudadanía en general, se encuentra haciendo difusión del caso de sustracción de dos piezas de gran valor, un Incensario y una Custodia, ambas de fines del 1700, robadas días atrás del Museo Casa de la Independencia. Solicitamos colaboración para la recuperación de estas obras que hacen parte de nuestro valioso patrimonio histórico.
2 February
- Haiti: building blocks of memory
The Globe and Mail, Canada
Dinu Bumbaru, Christina Cameron, Francois Leblanc and Herb Stovel: In the aftermath of the international conference in Montreal to focus attention on rebuilding Haiti, we encourage all parties to orient recovery efforts as much on retaining the building blocks of memory and historical continuity essential to cultural identity, as on providing the Haitian people with shelter and security.
1 February
- Haitians fight to save historic archives
National Post, United States
Laura Stone: Patrick Tardieu knows it is hard to think about crumpled paper at a time like this, when millions of people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands have died.
- A Ruined Cathedral in Port-au-Prince
NY Times, United States
A view from inside the ruined Notre-Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince. Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, was killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
- ¿Crisis en el Archivo General de la Nación?
Universia, Peru
César Gutiérrez es Archivero de la PUCP y un especialista en manejo de documentos. En este video, presenta un panorama de la situación que está pasando el Archivo General de la Nación después del Decreto que divide a esta institución en dos, de modo que, el Archivo Histórico pasaría a manos del INC.
updated on:
26 April, 2010
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