Stop Press

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.

27 février

• 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 février

• 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.

• Les nouvelles technologies s'ouvrent aux langues
  Technaute, Canada
  Microsoft et l'UNESCO se sont associés pour permettre aux gens aux quatre coins de la Terre d'accéder aux nouvelles technologies dans leurs propres langues.

• State-sponsored culture within modern day Cuba
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  Despite Cuba's relative economic weakness, the people are proud of their country's many cultural achievements which range from salsa music to ballet.

25 février

• Rediscovered Van Gogh exhibited
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  A painting of a windmill recently identified as a Van Gogh has gone on display at a Dutch museum.

24 février

• Online archive of UK science launches
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  The British Library has begun a project to create a vast, online oral history and archive of British science.

• 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 février

• 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.

• Collapse prompts Moroccan examination of old mosques
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  King Mohammed of Morocco has ordered structural examinations of all the country's ancient mosques after a minaret collapsed, killing 41 people.

• 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 février

• 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 février

• 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 février

• Toutankhamon aurait succombé au paludisme et à une maladie des os
  Le Monde, France
  Une étude américaine prétend avoir trouvé les causes tant recherchées de la mort,  à 19 ans, du légendaire pharaon Toutankhamon.

15 février

• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
  New York Times, United States
  John Noble Wilford: Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected.

• 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 février

• Berlin film festival showing for restored Metropolis
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Taking centre stage is a restored and extended version of the sci-fi classic Metropolis, originally released 83 years ago.

11 février

• Battered Haitian art shines through devastation
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Paul Adams: In Port-au-Prince, art is everywhere. In the teeming capital - even in the midst of the chaos and suffering wrought by last month's earthquake - you are never far from a painting, a mural or a sculpture. Haitians mourn lost art but also find inspiration.

• Attic stored meteorite 'four billion years old'
  BBC, United Kingdom
  A meteorite, which was at one point stored in an attic, is being studied by scientists at the French Natural History Museum for clues to the origins of life on earth.

• Stonehenge "Hedge" Found, Shielded Secret Rituals?
  National Geographic, United States
  Stonehenge may have been surrounded by a "Stonehedge" that blocked onlookers from seeing secret rituals, according to a new study.

10 février

• Smithsonian Roof Collapse: Snow Causes Cave-In At Museum Warehouse In Maryland
  Huntington Post , United States
  Severe weather caused a Smithsonian roof collapse at a Smithsonian warehouse in Maryland this morning, according to WUSA-9, raising concerns about the conditions of Smithsonian artifacts.

• Swiss art collection back on show after heist
  BBC, United Kingdom
  A Swiss art collection that has been under lock and key since thieves stole its most-prized painting two years ago is to be open to the public again.

8 février

• Site archéologique à Tipasa : Visite du directeur du Centre du patrimoine mondial
  El Watan, Algeria
  Le directeur du Centre du patrimoine mondial (CPM), institution qui se trouve à Paris (France), l’Italien Francesco Bandarin, s’est rendu au chef-lieu de la wilaya de Tipasa mercredi dernier, pour s’enquérir de la situation réelle du site archéologique de Tipasa.

6 février

• 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.

• China dinosaur footprints found in Zhucheng
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way.

2 février

• 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 février

• Haitians fight to save historic archives
  National Post, Etats-Unis
  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.

mise à jour : 26.04.2010