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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.
29 mai
- Ancient cemetery found in Iran
Press TV, Iran
Construction workers have stumbled upon an ancient cemetery in the southwestern city of Yasouj in Iran's Kohkilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province.
- Archaeologists study rock art at secret site
ABC News, Australia
Some of the world's top rock art archeologists are seeking to uncover the heritage of the Indigenous traditional owners of a remote part of the Northern Territory's Arnhem land.
28 mai
- Jordan Valley - cradle of civilisations?
Jordan Times, Jordan
Taylor Luck: Archaeological finds in the northern Jordan Valley are forcing experts to rethink the patterns of the earliest civilisations.
- Man and volcano
BBC News, United Kingdom
The ash cloud disruption is a recent reminder of how volcanoes have always intruded on human lives, says historian David Cannadine in his Point of View column.
27 mai
- BBC to explore our debt of gratitude to the ancient world
BBC News, United Kingdom
The flagship series in the collection is BBC Two's Ancient Worlds, a six-part odyssey from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire with archaeologist and historian Richard Miles at the helm.
26 mai
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Is Stonehenge worth £51m? Doing the maths on the famous stone circle
The Independent, United Kingdom
Malcolm Jack: Here’s a novel suggestion for how the government can help reduce the massive public deficit: sell Stonehenge. A survey of 500 estate agents, among other monuments studied, has placed the price of the ancient stone circle at a cool £51 million.
- Germany's Ozeaneum is the European Museum of the Year
Art Daily, United Kingdom
At the European Museum of the Year Award Ceremony on Saturday 22nd of May, in front of an audience of more than 160 museum professionals from 22 European countries, the Ozeaneum Museum in Stralsund, Germany was announced as the winner of the European Museum of the Year Award for 2010.
- A Magnificent Pagan Altar was Exposed at the Barzilai Hospital Compound
Art Daily, United Kingdom
The development work for the construction of a fortified emergency room at Barzilai Hospital, which is being conducted by a contractor carefully supervised by the Israel Antiquities Authority, has unearthed a new and impressive find: a magnificent pagan altar dating to the Roman period (first-second centuries CE) made of granite and adorned with bulls’ heads and a laurel wreaths.
- Ex Hacienda Where Emiliano Zapata was Gunned Down to be Restored
Art Daily, United Kingdom
Representative sites of the Revolutionary movement headed by Emiliano Zapata in Morelos are object of maintenance and restoration. Four historical buildings part of the “Ruta de Zapata”, among them, Tlaltizapan Ex Cuartel, where he planned military operations, and Chinameca Ex Hacienda, where he was murdered in April 10th 1919.
- The AIA Guide, Updated
NY Times, United States
Elaine Louie: The fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City ($39.95; Oxford University Press) will be published next week, and like the previous editions, it is a witty, informative and delightful critique of thousands of buildings and spaces in the five boroughs.
25 mai
- Archaeologists: 1200 Flint Stones Dating Back to 250, 000 Years Discovered in Syria
Global Arab Network
Manal Ismael al-Ibrahim: The pieces were discovered by the expedition of Damascus University in cooperation with the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in the governorate. Head of the expedition Prof. Ahmad Diab said the findings prove that the Acholic and Mousteric civilizations existed in Horan, proved to be in light of the findings one of the most important and old-inhabited places in Syria.
- Divers Explore Underwater Ruins of Cleopatra's Palace
Fox News, United States
Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over heaps of limestone blocks hammered into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis more than 1,600 years ago.
- Sacred and Secular Mix in Turkey’s Museums
NY Times, United States
Edward Rothstein: If you stand in the center of the Hagia Sophia here and gaze upward at what is one of the world’s tallest domes, you can be staggered by the overlapping layers of ruination and grandeur in this Church of Holy Wisdom.
- In Cleveland, a Frenzy to Prepare Antiquities
NY Times, United States
Randy Kennedy: On a recent day at the Cleveland Museum of Art here, a heroic life-size bronze Apollo thought to be the work of Praxiteles, among the greatest sculptors of Classical Greece, stood awaiting technical attention in the conservation lab, its wide, white stone eyes making it seem vaguely impatient.
- Whitney Museum Plans New Building Downtown
NY Times, United States
Carol Vogel: After 25 years of false starts, the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art has taken a step that will redefine the 80-year-old institution.
- Calaveras history ends up on eBay
Recordnet, United States
Dana M. Nichols: For a few days, it was possible to buy your own piece of frontier justice. The Calaveras County Historical Society until Monday was selling pieces of camphor wood from the county's original 1850 courthouse.
- English Heritage historical archive now online
Leisure Management, United Kingdom
Martin Nash: More than one million photographs and documents relating to England's historic buildings and archaeological sites have been made available to the public online.
- 'Oldest' stone artifacts may be younger
Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Fragments of stone tools found at the Sunabara remains in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, may not be as old as originally thought, according to archaeologists.
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Saving underwater relics
Xinhuanet, China
Chinese underwater archaeologists hope to make their ongoing efforts to salvage the sunken ship Nan'ao-1 off the coast of Guangdong province an exemplar for other underwater projects.
24 mai
- Where U.S. Helped to Rebuild Europe, Past Glories Are Restored
NY Times, United States
Maïa de la Buame: The United States on Tuesday will unveil the newly restored Hôtel de Talleyrand, the historic Parisian palace on the Place de la Concorde that once served as the headquarters of the Marshall Plan, the postwar American reconstruction plan for Western Europe.
- Minor Scores Major Victory in Christie's Dispute
Wall Street Journal, United States
Kelly Crow: Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor earned a victory in his tangled dispute with Christie's International on Friday when a San Francisco jury found that the auction house had waited too long to return some of Mr. Minor's art after failing to sell the art on his behalf.
- Reconstruction of Kasubi Tombs in Kampala begins
ETN eTurboNews, United States
Wolfgang H. Thome: An ancient Chalukyan temple dating to the 7th century AD has been discovered at Terela village in Durgi mandal, about 10 km from Macherla in Guntur district.
- Chalukyan temple discovered
The Hindu, India
P. Samuel Jonathan: An ancient Chalukyan temple dating to the 7th century AD has been discovered at Terela village in Durgi mandal, about 10 km from Macherla in Guntur district.
- 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Creates Deep Sea Mystery
Discovery News, United States
Rossella Lorenzi: Although the 2,000-year-old shipwreck under the Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy may be a godsend for nuclear physicists, the “Ship of the Thousand Ingots” has been one big mystery for archaeologists.
- Sahara cave may hold clues to dawn of Egypt
Reuters Africa
Patrick Werr: Archaeologists are studying prehistoric rock drawings discovered in a remote cave in 2002, including dancing figures and strange headless beasts, as they seek new clues about the rise of Egyptian civilisation.
- Medvedev contre la tour Gazprom
Libération, France
Le comité du patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco, qui conteste la construction d’une tour géante de nature à défigurer le paysage de Saint-Pétersbourg, est-il en passe de gagner son bras de fer ?
23 mai
- Saving Towns by Filling Rooms in Italy
NY Times, United States
Gisela Williams: One spring afternoon in the early 1980s Giancarlo Dall’Ara, an Italian hotel marketing consultant, was wandering the streets of a tiny village near Maranzanis, in Friuli, a rural mountainous region in the northeast corner of Italy.
- 57 Ancient Egyptian Tombs with Mummies Unearthed
Discovery News, United States
Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday.
22 mai
- Archaeologists unearth Metal Age furnaces
VietNam News
Ancient copper furnaces recently unearthed at an archaeological site in Dong Anh, in the north of Ha Noi, have shed important light on the Metal Age, according to archaeologists.
- One of Mesoamerica's oldest tombs found
LA Times, United States
The discovery in the Mexican state of Chiapas, an elaborate crypt at least 2,500 years old, includes the remains of what is believed to be an early ruler of the Zoque people, archaelogists say.
- Families’ Every Fuss, Archived and Analyzed
NY Times, United States
Benedict Carey: At a conference here this month, more than 70 social scientists gathered to bring to a close one of the most unusual, and oddly voyeuristic, anthropological studies ever conceived.
21 mai
- The Mysteries of Meroe
NY Times, United States
Souren Melikian: In the last three years, archaeological discoveries have given a new face to an enigmatic culture that already intrigued Western explorers 250 years ago.
- 11 Most Endangered U.S. Historic Sites Named
National Geographic, United States
Time and the elements eat away at Fort Hunter, New York's Schoharie Creek Aqueduct, a circa-1840 engineering marvel of the Erie Canal. The aqueduct represents U.S. state parks and state-owned historic sites, listed as a single entry on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2010 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
- Museum theft
Financial Times, United Kingdom
The director of the Palais de Tokyo offered some advice to the thieves who stole five paintings worth €100m from the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, “You cannot do anything with these paintings, return them.”
- Dakar in hot water over archaeological damage
Visordown News, United Kingdom
The 5,610-mile off-road competition, open to motor vehicles and motorcycles, is facing a backlash from the country's National Monuments Council (CMN), who are demanding the National Sports Institute of Chile pay the fee for damage to valued archaeological sites caused by the race.
- Excavation reveals early Pandya period sculpture
Express Buzz.com, India
The Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology has proposed to conduct a systematic excavation at the site, located 5 km from Thalapathi Samudram village in Tirunelveli district.
20 mai
- Massive Maya City Revealed by Lasers
National Geographic, United States
Airborne lasers have "stripped" away thick rain forests to reveal new images of an ancient Maya metropolis that's far bigger than anyone had thought.
- Where the ancients studied the moon and stars
CNN, United States
Stephanie Busari and Catriona Davies: The site, at an altitude of more than 1,000m and with a 100m diameter, is described as the "Macedonian Stonehenge" and is ranked by NASA as the fourth oldest ancient observatory in the world, after Abu Simbel in Egypt, Stonehenge in Britain and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
- Sunken vessel contains much bronze despite Ming-era ban
People's Daily, China
During the ongoing exploration of the Nan'ao No.1, archaeological teams took pictures of the sunken Ming vessel's second tank and salvaged cultural relics from tank one, finding large amounts of bronze and colored porcelains among the cultural relics.
- Cultural artefacts returned to Peru
BBC News, United Kingdom
Ashleigh Nghiem: Peru has welcomed the return of hundreds of cultural objects illegally exported around the world.
- Possible lake breach threat to ancient rock carvings
The News, Pakistan
Nisar Mahmood: Like other precious properties and infrastructure, many ancient rock carvings on Karakoram Highway (KKH) are at the risk of being washed away because of potential threat of flood from the artificial Attaabad lake in Hunza valley in Gilgit-Baltistan.
19 mai
- More Terracotta Warriors rise from the earth
People's Daily, China
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed about 120 more figures in their latest round of excavations at the Terracotta Army site that surrounds the tomb of China's first emperor in Shaanxi province.
- India bids to get back lost treasures
Economic Times, India
India is seeking UNESCO support for an international campaign to recover its priceless antiquities that were once taken away from the country in foreign invasions, a senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India said.
- Headless Egypt King Statue Found; Link to Cleopatra's Tomb?
National Geographic News, United States
Andrew Bossone: A massive, headless statue of a Greek king has been found in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple, adding to evidence that the structure could be the final resting place of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, excavation leaders say.
18 mai
- Pyramid Tomb Found: Sign of a Civilization's Birth?
National Geographic, United States
John Roach: After sheltering jeweled royals for centuries, the oldest known tomb in Mesoamerica—ancient Central America and Mexico, roughly speaking—has been uncovered, archaeologists announced Tuesday.
- Early Census Is Found in a New Jersey University’s Files
NY Times, United States
Sam Roberts: Curators at Kean University in New Jersey recently found a population count of the United States from an “actual enumeration” conducted at least four years before the country’s first official census in 1790.
17 mai
- Bronze Age vessel discovered in Macedonia
Balkan Travellers
A whole range of glass vessels dating to the end of the third and beginning of the fourth century and a unique vessel from the Mid-Bronze Age were discovered by archaeologists at the Tsarevi Kuli site near the town of Strumica in eastern Macedonia.
- Creatures of Cambrian May Have Lived On
NY Times, United States
John Noble Wilford: Ever since their discovery in 1909, the spectacular Burgess Shale outcrops in the Canadian Rockies have presented scientists with a cornucopia of evidence for the “explosion” of complex, multicellular life beginning some 550 million years ago.
16 mai
15 mai
- Digs reveal prisons used in ancient Anatolia
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Nicholas Lezard: There were detention facilities in Anatolia as far back as 4,000 years ago, according to Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, who is currently in charge of excavations at Kültepe in Kayseri.
- Britain's Lost Cities: a Chronicle of Architectural Destruction by Gavin Stamp
The Guardian, United Kingdom
Nicholas Lezard: It may be a truism that this country lost more buildings to town planners than to the Luftwaffe, but it is still worth mentioning. Here are 180 pages, each illustrated with one or more photographs, which document what can only be a fraction of the buildings and vistas we have lost.
14 mai
- Easter Island Mysteries
Environmental News Network, United States
Andy Soos: There are many mysteries about this small island in the southeast Pacific. The biggest ones are about the strange large statutes and how they were moved about and the second about how it all ended on this lonely island.
13 mai
- Terkel Coming Online
NY Times, United States
Lori Rotenberk: If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. Under a deal signed Monday between the Chicago History Museum and the Library of Congress, tapes of those interviews will be digitally preserved and given new life online.
- Thinking Green: Function Over Form
NY Times, United States
Holland Cotter: Design as defined here isn’t about how to make the House Beautiful more beautiful; it’s about how to keep the globe afloat and ensure that all its occupants have access to a healthy patch of it.
- Seeing White Brick Buildings in a New Light
NY Times, United States
Joanne Kaufman: “When buildings replace white brick with red brick and a full historical limestone base, I see people who are defeated and don’t believe in the future,” said Françoise Bollack, an architect and an associate professor at Columbia University.
12 mai
- China unearths 114 new Terracotta Warriors
BBC News, United Kingdom
Archaeologists in China have unearthed 114 new terracotta warriors at the vast Qin dynasty tomb complex near Xian in Shaanxi province, state media reports.
- Traditional knowledge' centre set up near Florence
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Italy
An institute to preserve the world's traditional farming, building, cloth-making and other artisanal techniques has been set up at a small town outside Florence. The International Traditional Knowledge Institute (ITKI) at Bagno a Ripoli east of the Tuscan capital is the brainchild of Pietro Laureano, a consultant for the United Nations heritage organisation UNESCO.
11 mai
- Giving Museumgoers What They Want
NY Times, United States
Carol Kino: In the last 20 years or so, “engage the public” has become one of the most common mantras of the museum business, an injunction to curators and designers to court their audiences with ever more seductive video displays, computer interactives and exhibition architecture.
- Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days
NY Times, United States
John Noble Wilford: For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America.
10 mai
- Rescuing Art From the Rubble of the Quake
NY Times, United States
Kate Taylor: Susan Blakney, a paintings conservator from New York, scrambled up a mound of rubble left by the collapse of the Episcopal Holy Trinity Cathedral here, searching for small shards of the cathedral’s murals. The rescue is being organized by the Smithsonian Institution, which is to open a center here in June where American conservators will work side-by-side with Haitian staff members to repair torn paintings, shattered sculptures and other works pulled from the rubble of museums and churches.
- Fossil reveals early bird plumage
BBC News, United Kingdom
Pallab Ghosh: A new study of a 150-million-year-old fossil of an Archaeopteryx has shown that remnants of its feathers have been preserved.
7 mai
6 mai
- Mission to make 3D map of Mount Rushmore
BBC News, Royaume-Uni
David Allison: A team from Scotland is heading to South Dakota to make a 3D map of Mount Rushmore, the iconic monument of four US presidents carved out of rock. Glasgow School of Arts is using state of the art technology to catalogue 10 world heritage sites.
5 mai
- How to conserve artworks at home
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines
Walter Ang : Saving your art begins even before you acquire it, noted collection management consultant Ricky Francisco. In a lecture on “Preventive Conservation for Artworks at Home,” Francisco gave buyers and collectors basic tips on how to take care of their art pieces.
- Ghent Altarpiece to Undergo Restoration
New York Times, Etats-Unis
Randy Kennedy :
In the nearly six centuries since its completion in 1432, the Ghent Altarpiece, one of the world’s most renowned works of art, has not exactly been a stay-at-home kind of masterpiece.
4 mai
- Who Draws the Borders of Culture?
New York Times, Etats-Unis
Michael Kimmelman: The British Museum is Europe’s Western front in the global war over cultural patrimony, on account of the [Elgin] marbles.
2 mai
- In Shanghai, Preservation Takes Work
New York Times, United States
Dan Levin: In many ways development in this city has followed a pattern common to much of urban China since the economic reforms of the 1980s.
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