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Les médias nous informent : septembre 2008
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Recueil d’articles de presse sur des sujets liés au patrimoine. Les points de vue exprimés dans ces derniers n’engagent évidemment que leurs auteurs.

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30 septembre

  • Children roped in to conserve heritage sites
    DNA, India
    Soon children will be doing their bit to conserve the four Unesco world heritage sites -- Nandadevi, Kaeolodeo Ghana bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Assam's Kaziranga national park and Manas wildlife sanctuary in India.
  • El cuadro no resultó tan kitsch
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Una obra no conocida del pintor flamenco Pieter Brueghel el Joven (1564-1638) apareció sorpresivamente en un programa sobre antigüedades de la televisión holandesa.

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29 septembre

  • 'Iceman' row ends after 17 years
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    A legal battle sparked by the discovery of the world-famous 5,300-year-old "Iceman" known as Oetzi in northern Italy in 1991 has finally been settled.
  • A Slice of World Heritage
    Indian Express
    The ad hoc ‘French Mission for Food Heritage and Cultures’ is preparing for battle with weapons they know best.
  • Talleres sobre Defensa del Patrimonio Cultural en Cusco, Apurímac, Tacna y Puno
    Perú Provincias
    A fin de fomentar en la población el cuidado del patrimonio cultural que rodea a su comunidad, el Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC) iniciará hoy y mañana martes, en el Cusco, un ciclo intensivo de talleres de defensa del patrimonio cultural dirigido a la Macro Región Sur: Cusco, Apurímac, Tacna y Puno.
  • Los bailes populares son un patrimonio cultural en riesgo de desaparecer: Huesca
    La Jornada, Mexico
    Yadira Llaven: La popularidad de la música comercial en las estaciones radiales, la necesidad de globalizar las culturas musicales del mundo y hacerlas un producto de simple consumo y la falta de espacios en los medios de comunicación para divulgar la música y el baile popular y tradicional de México provocan que este rico patrimonio cultural cada día corra más riesgo de desaparecer.

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28 septembre

  • Recuperan tesoro hundido en Namibia
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Frauke Jensen: Un equipo internacional de arqueólogos trabaja a tiempo completo, en las proximidades de la costa de Namibia, para rescatar los restos del naufragio de lo que parece ser un barco mercante portugués del siglo XVI.

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27 September

  • Patrimonio cultural, un buen negocio
    El Economista.com.mx, Mexico
    La Subsecretaría de PYMES impulsará productos culturales para convertir las riquezas de nuestro país en oportunidades de negocios.

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26 September

  • Saving India’s endangered film, video and sound heritage
    PIB, India
    Highlighting the pressing need to safeguard films, videos and sound recordings in India’s Cultural Institutions, several Indian and International Cultural Heritage Professionals, met at the National Museum Institute (NMI), here today to discuss possible strategies and solutions.
  • Uncovering Namibia's sunken treasure
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Frauke Jensen: A team of international archaeologists is working round the clock to rescue the wreck of what is thought to be a 16th Century Portuguese trading ship that lay undisturbed for hundreds of years off Namibia's Atlantic coast.
  • Team finds Earth's 'oldest rocks'
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    James Morgan : Earth's most ancient rocks, with an age of 4.28 billion years, have been found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada.
  • 'Built heritage' body's centenary
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The body looking after Scotland's "built heritage" - The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - is about to mark its centenary. Kenneth Macdonald reports.
  • Banksy refuses to back art sale
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Guerrilla artist Banksy has refused to authenticate five works up for auction in London this weekend.

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25 septembre

  • Livre Blanc: le patrimoine culturel du Tibet est efficacement protégé
    Xinhua, Chine
    Le gouvernement chinois a  consacré de très importants moyens humains, financiers et  matériels pour la protection, la transmission, la valorisation et  l'épanouissement de l'excellente culture traditionnelle tibétaine, selon un livre blanc publié jeudi par le Bureau d'Information du Conseil des Affaire d'Etat (gouvernement chinois). 
  • Recommandations des experts : Le bouclier bleu, une “Croix-rouge” des œuvres d’art
    Walf Fadjri, Senegal
    Le gouvernement chinois a  consacré de très importants moyens humains, financiers et  matériels pour la protection, la transmission, la valorisation et  l'épanouissement de l'excellente culture traditionnelle tibétaine, selon un livre blanc publié jeudi par le Bureau d'Information du Conseil des Affaire d'Etat (gouvernement chinois). 
  • Entre butin de guerre et objet de pillage : Le patrimoine culturel pris entre deux feux
    Walf Fadjri, Senegal
    Les conflits armés en Afrique de l’Ouest infligent un lourd tribut au patrimoine culturel. L’ampleur des dégâts a poussé le Programme des musées de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Wamp), en partenariat avec l’Ong Open society initiative west Africa (Osiwa), à réfléchir sur le thème : ‘L’impact des conflits armés sur le patrimoine culturel en Afrique de l’ouest’.

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24 septembre

  • Ancient Babylon Damaged
    National Geographic, United States
    After years of deterioration, the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon is suffering anew in the wake of war.
  • Saving India’s endangered film, video and sound heritage
    PIB, India
    Highlighting the pressing need to safeguard films, videos and sound recordings in India’s Cultural Institutions, several Indian and International Cultural Heritage Professionals, met at the National Museum Institute (NMI), here today to discuss possible strategies and solutions.
  • Rothko's murals reunited at Tate
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Some of artist Mark Rothko's most famous paintings have been reunited for an exhibition at London's Tate Modern.
  • El inventario del patrimonio
    El Comercio, Ecuador
    Eduardo Almeida Reyes: En sinnúmero de ocasiones la prensa ha denunciado el lamentable estado en que se encuentra el Patrimonio Cultural del país.

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23 septembre

  • Africa's academic heritage
    News24, South Africa
    Africa's heritage is not all "song and dance", the SA Mali Manuscript project aims to prove in its tour of ancient academia produced on the continent.
  • Neanderthals 'enjoyed broad menu'
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Jonathan Amos: It seems Neanderthals enjoyed a wide range of foods - a much broader menu than had previously been supposed.
  • Stonehenge's medicine
    The Telegraph, United Kingdom
    For Neolithic Man, Stonehenge appears to have been rather more than an astronomical observatory and necropolis.
  • EXPOSITION - Pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel : Patrick Robert
    Le Quotidien, Senegal
    G. A. Tchedji: Une exposition photo a démarré depuis hier à la Maison de la Culture Douta Seck sous l’initiative du Wamp. C’est dans le cadre de la lutte contre la préservation du patrimoine culturel que ces photos de Patrick Robert sont présentées au public, afin de sensibiliser sur les conséquences dévastatrices des conflits armés.

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22 septembre

  • Agha Khan uses his massive wealth to protect precious sites in Syria
    Daily Star, United Kingdom
    Annick Benoist: The majestic citadel atop Syria's ancient city of Aleppo, the Masyaf Fortress of the sinister order of the Assassins and the castle of Arab conqueror Salah al-Din (Saladdin) have all been given a new lease on life as part of a project by the Agha Khan to promote Islamic sites.
  • Iran Sinking as Groundwater Resources Disappear
    National Geographic, United States
    Kate Ravilious: Iran's insatiable demand for water, which is being drawn out of aquifers far faster than it can be replenished, is causing large chunks of farmland to sink and buildings to crack, according to a new study.
  • NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape
    The Guardian, United Kingdom
    Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.
  • Neanderthals had a taste for seafood
    The Guardian, United Kingdom
    The last of the Neanderthals feasted on warmed mussels, baby seals and washed-up dolphins, according to fossil hunters working in ancient seaside caves in Gibraltar.
  • Le Groupement passe ses archives au numérique
    Maville, France
    Le Centre de ressources numériques et d'animation du patrimoine culturel est né. Un nom à rallonge, une idée toute simple : numériser des documents sur l'histoire du Pays de Redon.

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21 septembre

  • Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    James Morgan: Archaeologists have pinpointed the construction of Stonehenge to 2300BC - a key step to discovering how and why the mysterious edifice was built.

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20 septembre

  • Celluloid sanctuary
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Nigel Andrews: A modern John Bull would surely be depicted riding round an Olympic velodrome while simultaneously eating a plateful of pie, reading a JK Rowling bestseller and watching - on some handy mega-screen - the latest restoration classic from the British Film Institute.
  • Cold War Modern at the V&A
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Edwin Heathcote: What timing! After blockbusters on art nouveau, art deco and modernism, how was the Victoria and Albert Museum going to frame its next stage of the journey through modernism?
  • Wind farm threatens site of Roman villa
    The Telegraph, United Kingdom
    Patrick Sawer: Plans to build a windfarm on the site of an ancient Roman villa have sparked a furious row, pitching archaeologists against supporters of wind power.

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19 septembre

  • Michelangelo's David 'may crack'
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Mark Duff: Michelangelo's famous statue of David could collapse because of its exposure to mass tourism, Italian experts say.
  • Patrimoine, la belle passion des Français
    Le Figaro, France
    Léopold Sanchez: L'incroyable succès des Journées du patrimoine, qui devraient encore drainer ce week-end quelque 12 millions de visiteurs, montre combien les Français sont attachés à leurs vieilles pierres et à leur héritage culturel. Pourtant, les menaces qui pèsent sur cette richesse n'ont jamais été aussi lourdes.
  • El David en peligro
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Mark Duff: Expertos italianos advirtieron que una de las estatuas más famosas del mundo puede llegar a romperse debido a su exposición al turismo masivo.

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18 septembre

  • La naturaleza es el mayor escollo para preservar el patrimonio
    La Jornada, Mexico
    Ericka Montaño Garfias: El reto inmediato que enfrenta Cuba para la conservación de sus edificios históricos son los embates de la naturaleza, por lo que no descarto que en los próximos años se realicen construcciones para reducir los daños de los huracanes, señala el historiador Eusebio Leal Spengler, quien desde hace varias décadas es el responsable de la restauración del Centro Histórico de La Habana, trabajo que ha merecido reconocimiento internacional.
  • La naturaleza es el mayor escollo para preservar el patrimonio
    El Comercio, Ecuador
    Los alcaldes y los delegados de las 21 ciudades del país declaradas Patrimonio llegaron a un acuerdo en Ibarra. Ellos plantearán al Gobierno un reparto equitativo del 6% del Impuesto a la Renta, que se destina para la conservación de los bienes. 
  • Descubren pieza inédita de Mozart
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Emma Jane Kirby: Una pieza musical desconocida del compositor Mozart fue descubierta en una biblioteca en Nantes, en el occidente de Francia.

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17 septembre

  • '70% of Cultural Heritage Sites Vulnerable to Fire'
    The Korea Times
    Kang Hyun-kyung: Approximately 70 percent of wooden cultural properties are vulnerable to fire and other sorts of vandalism as no fire alarms or closed-circuit television systems (CCTV) are installed there, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
  • Will the real dinosaurs stand up?
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Jonathan Amos: Most of the newly discovered dinosaurs are just that - new to science, an assessment concludes.
  • De l'art novo à l'Art Nouveau
    Réflexions du Miroir, Belgique
    A Bruxelles, l'Art Nouveau a sa place comme dans beaucoup de villes que l'on voulait prestigieuses. Qu'en reste-t-il?
  • ¿Un español inventó el telescopio?
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    ¿Sabe quién inventó el telescopio? Muchos quizás diríamos que fue Galileo, que se dice le encantaban los aparatos para hacer descubrimientos en el espacio.

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16 septembre

  • Underwater Museum Planned for Egypt's Alexandria
    National Geographic, United States
    Andrew Bossone: Cleopatra's palace sank long ago into the Mediterranean, but visitors to Alexandria, Egypt, may eventually view the complex's remnants via the world's first underwater museum.
  • New start for an urban form
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Edwin Heathcote: The latest skyscraper proposal for Manhattan looks as if it may achieve something impossible, perhaps even absurd: the synthesis of a number of entirely contradictory architectures.
  • Hirst sale breaks artist record
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    A two-day auction of art by Damien Hirst has set a new record for a sale dedicated to one artist of £111m.
  • Roban un Goya en Colombia
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Un 'invaluable' grabado del maestro español Francisco de Goya fue robado de un museo en Colombia donde se expone la obra del artista.
  • Convocan a profesionales para recopilar patrimonio
    La Hora, Ecuador
    Fotógrafos, periodistas y profesionales afines tendrán plazo hasta el próximo martes 16 de septiembre para presentar su hoja de vida en la Dirección Provincial de Cultura y optar por las nueve opciones laborales que ofrece el Ministerio del ramo para el desarrollo de productos audiovisuales sobre patrimonio y memoria colectiva de Zamora Chinchipe.

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15 septembre

  • Making shapes
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Edwin Heathcote: This year, under the roving international architecture curator Aaron Betsky, if the title betrays a certain surfer-dude dumbness (Out There), the subtitle (Architecture Beyond Building) confirms that this is the year of the avant-garde slacker-hippy, the digital drawing dude who can’t be bothered to make a building in the real world with all its contingent difficulties and sociopolitical implications.

  • Putting a ear to the past
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Monise Durrani: When a Scottish academic discovered a piece of 17th Century harpsichord music in a little known archive, he was keen to hear it played on the instrument for which it was written.
  • Rare Mass Tombs Discovered Near Machu Picchu
    National Geographic, United States
    José Orozco: Eighty skeletons and stockpiles of textiles found in caves near the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu may shed light on the role that the so-called lost city of the Inca played as a regional center of trade and power, scientists say.
  • La fotografía es un patrimonio
    El Telégrafo, Ecuador
    José A. Navarrete, experto en cultura visual dictó un seminario sobre imágenes de archivo en el país.

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14 septembre

  • Enseñan a estudiantes a cuidar patrimonio cultural
    El Universal, Mexico
    Participan jóvenes de secundaria de Tlalpan, Cuauhtémoc y Xochimilco en el programa Échale un ojo a tus monumentos, que a través de subastas, debates y juegos difunde la importancia de cuidar el patrimonio tangible e intangible de sus comunidades.

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13 September

  • The cold war’s grooviest relic
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    The Jested telecommunications tower stands proud and lonely on top of a tree-strewn mountain just over an hour’s drive from Prague.

  • Step right in as doors open for our 'Heritage Days'
    The Times, United Kingdom
    Across the European Union, September is “people’s month”. It’s only people’s month, of course, because the politicians say it is.

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12 septembre

  • Gadafy's green vision
    The Guardian, United Kingdom
    Steve Rose: Libya wants to overhaul its image by building the world's largest eco-friendly tourist resort. Steve Rose visits the ancient ruins of Cyrene to hear about the ambitious plans.
  • 'Missing heritage sites close to mines'
    Times of India, India
    Stating that the heritage sites missing from the notification issued by the Town and Country Planning (TCP) department on August 14, 2008 are close to mines, the Goa Heritage Action Group said this can't be a mistake, as claimed by the TCP. 
  • Love dilemma for Caribbean people
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    In May this year, the chief of an ancient Caribbean people came up with a drastic solution to protect their heritage - and their future.
  • La 25e édition des Journées du patrimoine
    L’Express, France
    Les 20 et 21 septembre aura lieu la 25e édition des Journées du patrimoine. Cette manifestation populaire suscite une réflexion sur les moyens alloués au secteur culturel en France.
  • Collège des Bernardins, une perle cistercienne accueille Benoît XVI
    Le Point, France
    Jérôme Cordelier: Historique, à plus d’un titre. Benoît XVI commence sa première visite en France en tant que pape par une conférence sur la foi et la culture, le 12 septembre, devant 600 invités au Collège des Bernardins à Paris. Il inaugure ainsi la nouvelle vie de cet édifice médiéval, rouvert au public le 5 septembre, huit siècles après sa fondation.
  • Roban cuadro histórico de Goya
    El Pais, Colombia
    Desconocidos robaron un pequeño cuadro de Francisco de Goya, que era parte de una exposición visitante en un museo del centro de Bogotá.

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11 septembre

  • In pictures: Museum conservation
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The British Museum is offering visitors a peek behind the scenes with the opening of a new conservation exhibition.
  • Gardiens du temple contre temps et désintérêt
    La Tribune, Algeria
    Hassan Gherab: En art et en création, tout acquis est susceptible d’être capitalisé et thésaurisé quand on sait le parfaire et le transmettre à la postérité qui, si elle le sauvegarde et entreprend de le pérenniser, en fera une richesse patrimoniale et un référent identitaire.
  • Numérisation du patrimoine culturel et historique
    Sud Quotidien, Senegal
    L’expert en informatique Mouhamet Diop qualifie de « gros chantier » la numérisation du patrimoine culturel et historique du Sénégal, estimant que « si ce travail n’est pas fait, c’est une perte incommensurable pour notre culture et pour notre pays ».
  • Las tumbas halladas en el Bellas Artes se integrarán en el museo
    La Nueva España, Spain
    M. Pérez: La ampliación del Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias integrará parte de la necrópolis hallada la semana pasada en los solares adyacentes al centro de arte. Así lo aseguró ayer el director general de Patrimonio del Principado, Adolfo Rodríguez Asensio, según ha informado «Efe».

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10 septembre

  • Sharjah plays its culture card
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    Robin Wigglesworth : Sharjah, the third largest statelet of the United Arab Emirates and home to about 800,000 people, has long prided itself on giving history and Arab and Muslim culture an equal billing to modernity.
  • Search on for stolen masterpieces
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The FBI are offering a $200,000 reward for the recovery of 12 "world class" artworks that were stolen from an elderly couple's home in the US.
  • Patrimoine : L'Etat participera à la restauration de la basilique St Augustin
    La Tribune, Tunisie
    "L'Etat algérien est  disposé à soutenir le projet de restauration de la basilique St Augustin", a indiqué mardi soir le wali de Annaba, M. Mohamed Ghazi en recevant en audience Mgr Gabriel Piroird, évêque de Constantine et d'Hippone, accompagné du père Raphaël Abdallah, recteur de la basilique St Augustin.
  • Google lanza hemeroteca digital
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Dentro de poco usted podrá buscar en internet el periódico del día en que nació y ver lo que ocurrió en el mundo en ese día tan especial.
  • Las urbes Patrimonio  se citarán en Ibarra
    El Comercio, Ecuador
    Los alcaldes de las ciudades declaradas Patrimonio Nacional avanzan en su organización. Quieren  solicitar al Gobierno un reparto más equitativo de los recursos destinados para esa labor.

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9 septembre

  • Gadaffi's son leads fight to woo eco-tourists
    The Telegraph, United Kingdom
    Malcolm Moore: An ambitious project to turn the ancient city of Cyrene, in Libya, into a centre for eco-tourism, was announced yesterday by Saif al-Islam Gadaffi, the second eldest of Col Maummar Gaddafi's seven sons.
  • Seabed archaeology goes virtual
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Elizabeth Mitchell : People will soon be able to operate their own virtual submersibles to explore hidden treasures at deep underwater archaeological sites.
  • Old newspapers get online launch
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Maggie Shiels:  A new initiative to bring old newspapers that pre-date the digital age to the web has been launched by the search giant Google.
  • African gov'ts charged to protect heritage sites
    GBC, Ghana
    The Minister for chieftaincy and culture, Sampson Kwaku Boafo, has stressed the need for Africans to pay more attention to their heritage sites as educational and tourism assets for national development. He said preserving and sustaining aspects of Sacred heritage sites will enable Africans secure the future of the young generation.  
  • Véritables chefs d'œuvre architecturales à sauvegarder
    Le Matin, Morrocco
    Les Fontaines et les latrines traditionnelles qui font partie intégrante du patrimoine culturel et religieux de la capitale spirituelle du Royaume, sont de véritables chefs d'œuvre architecturales qu'il faut sauvegarder.

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8 septembre

  • Buddha statue find at Afghan site
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    A giant statue of a Buddha has been discovered in central Afghanistan, near to the ruins of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas.
  • Hagan alarmed at destruction of heritage sites
    JoyOnline, Ghana
    Professor George Hagan, Chairman of the National Commission on Culture, on Monday observed that the pressure of economic need, greed, coupled with Africa's quest to discover and exploit natural resources for development had destroyed many heritage and sacred sites.
  • Ancient trees recorded in mines
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Jonathan Amos:  Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers.

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7 septembre

  • Mammoth skull raised from ground
    BBC News: United Kingdom
    Paul Rincon: Palaeontologists working in southern France have used a crane to lift a "rare" mammoth skull out of the ground.

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6 septembre

  • Young city sets space for heritage
    The Star, Malaysia
    Chow How Ban: Besides its iconic Bund, Shanghai has plans to preserve as much of its less than 100-year-old architectural and cultural heritage.
  • Lluvias dañan patrimonio leonés
    La Prensa, Nicaragua
    El Archivo Histórico Diocesano de León, que cuenta con las tres colecciones de documentos históricos más importantes de Nicaragua, como los manuscritos de la Curia Diocesana (1633), Gobernación (1647) y Municipal (1667), fue evacuado tras las lluvias caídas en los últimos días en el Pacífico.
  • Cuba: Rescatan Patrimonio de la Humanidad azotado por Gustav
    Prensa Latina
    Los pobladores de Viñales, una de las regiones cubanas azotadas por el reciente paso del huracán Gustav, rescatan viviendas y otras edificaciones del territorio, que ostenta el título de Paisaje Cultural de la Humanidad.

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5 septembre

  • Call of the wild
    Financial Times, United Kingdom
    For six years, Duane Zavadil has been a frequent visitor to what is sometimes called the world’s longest art gallery: mile upon mile of Native American etchings carved as many as 2,000 years ago on the enormous sandstone rocks of Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.
  • Heritage plan for Iraqi marshes
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    The United Nations has launched an initiative to have the marshlands of southern Iraq listed as a world heritage site.
  • Un palacio de ensueño
    BBC Mundo, United Kingdom
    Año tras año, cuando el aroma de la lavanda anuncia la llegada del verano, miles de personas invaden las callejuelas de Hauterives, una aldea en el sureste de Francia.

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4 septembre

  • More word on whether looting of sites is over
    Safecorner, United States
    If it were not already clear that the rosy scenario painted by Dr Abbas is difficult to accept at face value, Mounir Bouchenaki, the Director-General of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, writes to say that, although "we have unfortunately no direct information, since no mission can go to the field," the word he is getting is not terribly encouraging.
  • From Ghost Town to Boom Town
    NY Times, United States
    Home to a silver mine whose production peaked nearly four centuries ago and finally closed in 1923, this tiny rural town in western Japan once seemed doomed to suffer the fate of so many former boomtowns.
  • Mammoths moved 'out of America'
    BBC News: United Kingdom
    Elizabeth Mitchell: Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths may have originated in North America.
  • Oviedo ya existía en época romana
    La Nueva España, Spain
    La prueba del carbono 14 demuestra que la fuente de la Rúa es del siglo IV d. C. El surtidor se sitúa en tiempos del bajo Imperio romano, en pleno auge del culto al agua.
  • En San Telmo, quieren su patrimonio
    La Razón, Argentina
    Vecinos y comerciantes de San Telmo enviaron una carta al Gobierno porteño para pedir la suspensión de las obras en la calle Defensa.
  • Heritage group will help save old buildings
    The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
    Tifa Asrianti: The city administration and the conservation board of the Indonesian Tourism Promotion Board (BPPI) will cooperate in conserving historical buildings in the Old Town section and in teaching school children of the buildings' legacies.
  • Egypte : l'UNESCO apporte sa contribution au projet de musée subaquatique d'Alexandrie
    UN News
    L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO) a mis sur pied un comité scientifique consultatif international pour aider à poser les fondations d'un musée subaquatique d'un genre nouveau dans la baie d'Alexandrie (Égypte), où gisent des vestiges archéologiques d'un intérêt exceptionnel, notamment du palais de Cléopâtre et du célèbre phare d'Alexandrie.

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3 septembre

  • Nuevo patrimonio cultural  
    Prensa Libre, Guatemala
    Lucìa Herrera: Para muchos guatemaltecos la Semana Santa tiene un significado muy profundo que va más allá de un simple descanso. Es una semana llena de devoción, historia, arte, cultura, tradición, identidad, patrimonio y desarrollo económico, sin importar la condición social, origen o pueblo.

  • «La Rioja registra el único dinosaurio nadador»
    La Rioja, Spain
    La Fundación Patrimonio Paleontológico de La Rioja, entidad responsable de la conservación y promoción de las icnitas que se descubren en la región, conmemora este año el décimo aniversario de su constitución.

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2 September

  • 'Rare' mammoth skull discovered
    BBC News, United Kingdom
    Paul Rincon: The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.

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1 septembre

  • ITALIE •  Sous les pavés, des tas de vieilleries
    Courrier Internacional, France
    Creuser le sous-sol de Rome, de Naples ou de Milan, c'est à coup sûr tomber sur des vestiges archéologiques. Au point de retarder presque tous les chantiers, relate le Corriere della Sera, quotidien de Milan.
  • The Return of the Aksum Obelisk
    UNESCO Courrier
    Aksum, Ethiopian site listed as World Heritage since 1980, regains its status as a hub of African culture this month.
  • Projects aim to preserve heritage
    Fiji Times Online, Fiji
    The Ministry of Education has launched its Fiji National Memory of the World Committee to encourage projects and activities to preserve our documentary heritage.

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mise à jour : 05.11.2008

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