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

19 November

• Call for introducing youngsters to cultural values
  The Nation, Pakistan
  Federal Minister of National Heritage and Integration, Samina Khalid Ghurki here Friday called for introducing the young generation with the cultural values and traditional heritage.

• Leonardo da Vinci gets his first museum show of paintings
  Los Angeles Times, United States
  It might seem odd to suggest, but Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as a painter has suffered from a lack of museum exposure.

11 November

• Looting of Libyan treasure highlights illicit antiquities trade
  CNN, United States
  The looting of a large collection of priceless coins, statues and jewelry from a bank vault during Libya's recent civil war has highlighted the risk of looting during times of conflict.

10 November

• Egypt closes pyramid to avoid 11/11/11 rituals
  AFP, France
  Egypt will close the Great Pyramid of Giza on Friday to avoid any rituals by a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said.

9 November

• Belgian experts help save historic photos
  Viet Nam News
  Belgian and Vietnamese experts yesterday discussed the importance of photographic heritage in contemporary life alongside the possibility of developing a national photo museum.

• Moscow’s heritage under threat
  The Art Newspaper
  Demonstrations break out over plans to tear down the city’s historic buildings.

• Jamaicans Urged To Keep Rich Heritage Alive
  Jamaica Information Service
  Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, is urging Jamaicans to ensure that the country's rich culture and heritage remains alive and relevant by inculcating what is best about the country in the minds of the young.

7 November

• Archaeological dig in Qatar reveals fascinating material
  Gulf Times, Qatar
  Carbon dating of ancient organic remains from Wadi Debay’an, a site a few kilometres south of Al Zubara on Qatar’s north-west coastline, has yielded the earliest yet known date for human occupation in Qatar – 7,500 years before present.

• Castles of 'lost cities' revealed in Libyan desert
  MSNBC, United States
  New evidence of a lost civilization in an area of the Sahara in Libya has emerged from images taken by satellites.

• World's most endangered sites
  MSNBC, United States
  There’s an aquatic ecosystem so threatened it was added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger in 2010 — for the second time. But this site isn’t in a Third World or war-torn country. It’s the Florida Everglades.

4 November

• Historic conservation project by Global Heritage Fund begins at "Machu Picchu of the North"
  Art Daily
  If you ask Alejandra Figueroa, Global Heritage Fund’s Project Site director at Marcahuamachuco what her take on cultural heritage is, she’d say her personal stake in the preservation of this mysterious, ancient site is twofold.

• Germany: Cleaning woman damages sculpture
  Associated Press
  A modern art installation valued at euro800,000 ($1.1 million) was damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle, a Dortmund official said Friday.

• China vows crackdown on relics looting in South China Sea
  China Daily
  China's maritime and cultural officials on Friday pledged greater efforts to stop small treasure hunters from looting the cultural relics from sunken ancient merchant ships in the South China Sea.

3 November

• Libya's historic treasures survive the revolution
  BBC, United Kingdom
  One day, in the not too distant future, visitors may flock to see the giant white marble statues of the Roman emperors, Claudius and Augustus, that grace Tripoli's National Museum.

updated on: 1 December, 2011