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.

13 mars

• Thieves loot Lao city's Buddha statue heritage
  Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
  Norimasa Tahara: More than a 10th of the Buddha statues in Luang Prabang, an ancient city in north-central Laos whose urban district is a World Heritage Site, have gone missing in the past few years.

• A spellbinding Egyptian discovery
  Reuters
  Archaeologists in Egypt have found what they believe are hieroglyphic funeral spells guiding a mysterious 4,000-year-old queen in the afterlife.

11 mars

• Antigua, Guatemala: Doors of perfection
  Telegraph, United Kingdom
  Trevor Stutely: Cradled by the soaring peaks of the volcanoes Agua and Fuego, the Guatemalan city of Antigua is among the finest examples of Spanish-era architecture in the Americas, a place of baroque churches and rigorously maintained colonial homes.

10 mars

• Google to digitise ancient Italian books
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  The Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the internet.

9 mars

• Giotto frescoes 'rediscovered' in Florence chapel
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  Frescoes painted some 700 years ago by the Italian artist Giotto have been rediscovered in a chapel in Florence.

4 mars

• New art restoration technology wows the world
  Business Weekly, United Kingdom
  The world-renowned Hamilton Kerr Institute has joined forces with Cambridgeshire company, SmartDrive to provide revolutionary technology which will enable art restorers, curators, gallery visitors and web-users to view masterpieces in a way never seen before.

3 mars

• Terracotta Warriors Safe after Chile Earthquake
  CRIEnglish, China
  Chinese relics, including some of the famed terracotta warriors, on display in Chile since December have survived the quake that rocked the South American country on Feb. 27.

• Documenting the Damage in Chile
  New York Times, United States
  An 8.8-magnitude quake struck Chile early Saturday morning, shaking the capital of Santiago, bringing down buildings and setting off tsunami warnings along the Pacific rim. New York Times readers are sharing their photographs of the quake's aftermath, and are invited to submit photos.

• Le sarcophage d'une reine inconnue découvert en Egypte
  Le Monde, France
  Une mission archéologique française a découvert près du Caire le sarcophage en granit rose et au couvercle en basalte d'une reine jusqu'ici inconnue de la VIe dynastie, a annoncé mercredi 3 mars le service des antiquités égyptiennes.

1 mars

• Destruction at Museum of Contemporary Art
  CNN, United States
  These images were taken on the third day after the quake in front of the MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art - here in central Santiago. 

• Huge head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  A colossal red granite head of one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, officials said.

• Heritage versus mining
  Mail and Guardian, South Africa
  Yolandi Groenewald: A battle royal looms over the awarding of coal-mining rights adjacent to world heritage site and national park Mapungubwe, with the Department of Environmental Affairs smack in the middle.

mise à jour : 15.03.2010