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A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.
29 June
28 June
- Police recover stolen Caravaggio painting in Berlin
The Local, Germany
German police said Monday they had recovered a 400-year-old painting attributed to Italian master Caravaggio worth tens of millions of euros stolen two years ago from a museum in Ukraine.
24 June
- Ancient Jain temple facing destruction
Express Buzz, India
A Jain temple at Kakayanthope near the archaeological site of Arikamedu is facing threat of destruction due to encroachments and overflowing drainage.
- Well-preserved Roman road found in southern Serbia
Europe News
'We are working on preservation of the site and preparing a presentation for European academic circles,' he said, adding that the road 'was built in the mid-first century and was used for several more centuries, most likely until the seventh century.'
- Remains of Phoenician fortress uncovered in Cyprus
The Daily Star, Lebanon
Digs in Cyprus have uncovered what may be soldiers’ barracks belonging to a sprawling Phoenician fortress that was the island’s largest ancient administrative hub dating back at least 2,500 years, the Cypriot Antiquities Department director said Monday.
- Archaeologists to tunnel for Aztec rulers' tombs
The Monterrey Herald, United States
Mark Stevenson:
Archaeologists found some of the richest and most unusual Aztec offerings ever in excavations under a mammoth slab depicting an earth goddess and said they hope to uncover an emperor's tomb nearby.
23 June
- King Tut Died of Blood Disorder: Study
Discovery Channel, United States
Legendary pharaoh Tutankhamun was probably killed by the genetic blood disorder sickle cell disease, German scientists said Wednesday, rejecting earlier research that suggested he died of malaria.
22 June
- Lasers uncover first icons of Sts. Peter and Paul
Washington Post, United States
Nicole Winfield: Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a startling find: the first known icons of the apostles Peter and Paul.
21 June
- Polaroid artistry
Washington Post, United States
More than 1,000 photographs from the historic Polaroid collection, including works by Andy Warhol, are to go under the hammer in New York.
20 June
- Radar reveals extent of buried ancient Egypt city
Washington Post, United States
An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday.
17 June
- Cows desecrate historical pa
3News, New Zealand
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust says the recent damage to a Taranaki pa site by dairy cows may have been unintentional, but it should serve as a warning for landowners and councils about protecting archaeological sites.
- Bosnia Turns Marshal Tito Nuclear Bunker into Art Gallery
ArtDaily.org
Aida Cerkez-Robinson: It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter communist Yugoslavia's strongman and his inside circle. Decades later, the massive underground complex is about to be reborn as one of the world's quirkiest art galleries.
16 June
- Pagan-Cult Worship Objects Found
National Geographic, United States
About 200 pagan-cult artifacts, including small ritual stands pierced with mysterious holes (pictured), have been discovered in a rock hollow in northern Israel, archaeologists announced in early June.
- Experts to tunnel for Aztec rulers' tombs
MSNBC, United States
Mark Stevenson: Archaeologists found some of the richest and most unusual Aztec offerings ever in excavations under a mammoth slab depicting an earth goddess and said Wednesday they hope to uncover an emperor's tomb nearby.
- 'Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands' - The Penn Museum's Near-East First
Heritage Key, United Kingdom
In the 1880s, a time of great opportunities and great adventures, the University of Pennsylvania Museum organized America's first archaeological expedition to the ancient Near East - to Nippur, a promising but far-flung Mesopotamian site then within the vast Ottoman Empire, now located in Iraq to the south of Baghdad.
15 June
- Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Complex
National Geographic, United States
Sacrificial remains of humans and animals, believed to be at least 2,700 years old, have been found in central China's Luoyang city (map), Chinese archaeologists say.
- Caves of Altamira Reopen: Spanish Culture Ministry to Defy Scientists' Warnings
Heritage Key, United Kingdom
The Spanish Culture Ministry have announced that the Caves of Altamira – the so-called Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic art – are to reopen after eight years of closure, despite serious warnings from scientists that the world-famous ancient drawings and polychrome rock paintings within may suffer irrevocable damage from moisture generated by visitors.
14 June
- Stonehenge Film 'Remnants' Explores the Megalithic Civilisation
Heritage Key, United Kingdom
The world's most photogenic stone circle, Stonehenge, is the subject of a film called "Remnants" by Grant Wakefield which explores the Neolithic civilisation, looking at how we know so little about a culture which spanned over 3 millennia.
- Brooklyn Museum’s Populism Hasn’t Lured Crowds
NY Times, United States
Robin Pogrebin: The Brooklyn Museum has long faced criticism that its populist tack and exhibitions on topics like the “Star Wars” movies and hip-hop music have diminished its stature. And now the attendance figures raise questions about the effectiveness of those efforts to build an audience by becoming more accessible.
- Initial Stages Of New Egypt Museum Completed
CBS News, United States
Egypt's massive new museum for its famous antiquities now has a power plant, a fire station and its own conservation center, and over the next two years it will become home to some 100,000 artifacts, officials said Monday.
- Ancient kingdoms to be revived
China Daily, China
The
ancient city of Anyang is planning to build a relics park to revitalize its rich historical heritage amid growing public interest in Cao Cao, a politician and general from the Three Kingdoms period (AD 220-280), and his era.
13 June
- Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists
NY Times, United States
Carol Vogel: For artists, being included in a museum exhibition generally means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious art gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way that other hierarchical systems have been blown apart in the Internet age.
- Ancient cave paintings found in Romania
Physorg.com, United States
Romanian experts have discovered the most ancient cave paintings found to date in Central Europe, aged up to 35,000 years old, Romanian and French scientists said Sunday.
11 June
- World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved
National Geographic, United States
Kate Ravilious: Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!"
- Archaeologists confirm Megalithic find
The Hindu, India
Officials of the Archaeology Department who visited Dayananda Ashram at Puliyankad, near Kollengode, on Wednesday confirmed that the site was an old Megalithic settlement. The port-holed cists found there dated back to the Megalithic period of 1000 BC to 200 AD.
- La grotte d'Altamira va rouvrir au public
Le Monde, France
La grotte d'Altamira en Espagne, considérée comme la "Chapelle sixtine" de l'art rupestre paléolithique, va rouvrir au public après huit ans de fermeture. Une décision qui va l'encontre des recommandations des experts.
- Mexican Archaeologists will Return to Egypt
Art Daily , United Kingdom
After 5 years of uninterrupted archaeological, restoration and iconographic interpretation work, the Mexican delegation in charge of conservation at the Theban Tomb 39, in Egypt, will begin the 6th field season in September 2010. The goal is to open the site to public in 2013.
10 June
- Ancient figurine ‘factory’ uncovered
Cyprus Mail, Cyprus
The evidence comes from a settlement of 3000 BC located at Souskiou near Palaepaphos. The Pomos sculpture represents a woman with her arms spread. It was probably used as a fertility symbol.
9 June
- World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved
National Geographic, United States
Kate Ravilious: Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!"
8 June
- Ancient bees found in Israel hailed from Turkey
Los Angeles Times, United States
Thomas H. Maugh II: The origin of insects found in clay beehives in the Jordan Valley, the oldest known commercial beekeeping facility in the world, suggests extensive trading and complicated agriculture 3,000 years ago.
- Funding: the state of the art
The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom
András Szántó: In a world mired in economic uncertainty and with cash for the arts disappearing, how do we argue for culture?
7 June
- Turkmen capital is 8 thousand years old, archeologists say
Turkmenistan, Russia
The fifth season of excavations at Akdepe settlement in Chandybil district of the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, has come to an end. Deputy Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan Professor Ovez Gundogdiev led the first national expedition.
- Pollution takes a toll on heritage monuments
The Times of India, India
Sudipta Sengupta: The industrial belt of Patancheru could be synonymous with pollution but not many would be aware that battling for life in this area are the Patancheru tombs, that dated back to the 16th century and have fallen prey to toxins that have clouded Hyderabad’s environment.
- 'Gladiator burial ground' discovered in York
The Telegraph, United Kingdom
Matthew Moore: The world's best-preserved gladiator burial ground - the final resting place of warriors who battled wild beasts and each other before being dispatched with a hammer blow to the skull - may have been discovered in York.
6 June
- Cuts hit Renaissance hubs
Museum Association Journal, United Kingdom
Sharon Heal: Renaissance hubs asked to cut more than £1m this year
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has to reduce its expenditure by 3 per cent this financial year.
5 June
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Food art: archeologists dig up 30-year-old last supper
The Independent, United Kingdom
Pigs ears, smoked udders or veal lungs? French archeologists this week begin examining the remains of an open-air banquet shoveled underground almost 30 years ago as an art performance.
4 June
3 June
- Is feng shui an intangible cultural heritage?
Global Times, China
Experts are debating weather to include some folk beliefs such as feng shui into the nation's intangible cultural heritage (ICH), a Chinese culture official said Wednesday.
2 June
- “One of the worst cases in conservation history”
The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom
Conservators finally have the necessary expertise and funds to treat a painting that was considered to be one of the most seriously damaged during the great Florence Flood of 1966.
1 June
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Lost tomb of ancient Egyptian official Ptahmes re-discovered
The Independent, United Kingdom
Sean Williams: The lost tomb of an Egyptian general and scribe has been unearthed in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara – 125 years after it was first discovered. The tomb, of 19th Dynasty (1203 – 1186 BC) official Ptahmes, is over 70m long and features several chapels - so it's a wonder no-one recorded its location in 1885, leaving it to disappear beneath the desert sands.
- Battle lines over by-pass drawn
BBC News, United Kingdom
Villagers in Slane, County Meath, on the main Londonderry to Dublin road, have long campaigned for a bypass - 22 people have been killed there in the last 20 years.
But as BBC NI Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison now reports, heritage campaigners believe the planned bypass is too close to ancient monuments like Newgrange.
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7 July, 2010
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