Stop Press

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

28 April

• Mexico Returns an Invaluable Archaeological Piece to the Government of Egypt
  Art Daily
  An invaluable archaeological piece from Aswan, Egypt, from the Medium Kingdom period (2055-1650 BC), was returned by the Government of Mexico to the Arab nation in a ceremony at the National Museum of Anthropology, where it was safeguarded and examined: after 4 years of research, authenticity and its illegal extraction from the country were confirmed.

18 April

• World Heritage Day theme this year is Cultural Heritage of Water
  Times of India
  While heritage may be the mainstay of Rajasthan, its rich traditional water conservation and storage step-wells are in dire straits.

14 April

• Legendary archaeologist Lewis Binford passes away
  The Hindu, India
  Lewis Binford, founder of the New Archaeology movement and one of the seniormost figures in world archaeology, has passed away at the age of 80.

9 April

• Dig at archaeological site unearths 'gay caveman'
  CTV News, Canada
  An intriguing find at an archaeological site in the Czech Republic has ignited a debate over whether a so-called "gay caveman" has been unearthed, more than 4,500 years after his death.

8 April

• Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact
  Reuters
  A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it.

• St Fagans museum: Recreated medieval organ on show
  BBC, United Kingdom
  A working reconstruction of a medieval church organ is being unveiled at the National History Museum at St Fagans, Cardiff.

6 April

• Pictures: 2,500-Year-Old Brain Examined
  National Geographic , United States
  First dug up in 2008 by archaeologists in York, England (see map), the well-preserved brain prompted experts to investigate how the tissue had stayed in such good shape.

• Forget the Smile: One Man Is After Mona Lisa's Bones
  Time, United States
  An Italian man has announced his plans to unearth the remains of the woman thought to have been the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

4 April

• Gauguin masterpiece unharmed after attack at National Gallery
  Washington Post , United States
  The Paul Gauguin masterpiece that was attacked Friday by a woman at the National Gallery of Art “sustained no damage,” the museum said Monday, after conservators examined the canvas.

3 April

• Peru: A future in Machu Picchu's past
  The Telegraph, United Kingdom
  Hiram Bingham 'discovered' Machu Picchu in 1911. A hundred years later, Christopher Heaney believes the ancient citadel is both Peru's history and its way forward.

2 April

• How were Ice Age cave painters able to create great art?
  Irish Times, Ireland
  The rock paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France that are the subject of Werner Herzog’s marvellous film Cave of Forgotten Dreams are both astonishingly old and disconcertingly new.

updated on: 2 May, 2011