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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.

30 mars

• Cultural heritage a way to win friends and influence people in tourism
  The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
  Expatriates and tourists alike visiting Indonesia want a memorable experience of their time here. For many, that involves sampling and learning first-hand about its rich and unique culture.

• Art museum's storage bin held a secret masterwork
  Los Angeles Times, Etats-Unis
  Tucked away and forgotten for years in a museum storage bin, the small oil painting held a great secret and was just biding its time, waiting for someone to notice it. And then one day someone did.

29 mars

• CAS archaeologists test new research tool
  Phys.Org
  Last month, a team of CAS archaeology faculty and students tested out their latest research tool: a remote-controlled hexacopter. The small six-rotor flying tool, equipped with a camera, will be used in Turkey this summer to survey dig sites.

• NYC’s Met museum and India sign agreement in areas of conservation, exhibitions and research
  The Washington Post, Etats-Unis
  New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and India have signed an agreement to cooperate in areas of conservation, exhibitions and research.

28 mars

• Mystery unfolds: Monastery unearthed in Taxila valley
  The Express Tribune, Pakistan
  ISLAMABAD: The only Buddhist monastery in the Taxila valley was a thriving centre of learning at the end of the third century AD.

• Protecting T&T’s heritage
  Guardian, Trinité-et-Tobago
  One of the many missions of the NGO Citizens for Conservation is to change the public perception of natural and built heritage.

• Egypt revolution brings golden age for tomb raiders
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  Egypt's revolution has not only brought political upheaval, but also lucrative opportunities for illegal diggers hunting for antique treasures and gold.

27 mars

• Safeguard integrity of cultural heritage- MP urges tourism stakeholders
  Vibe Ghana, Ghana
  Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, the Member of Parliament for the Nkawkaw Constituency has advised stakeholder in the tourism sector to make critical interventions to safeguard the integrity of the cultural norms, practices and sensibilities of the various tourism destinations across the country.

• Stone Age Phallus Figurine Unearthed In Israeli Ruins
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  Some remarkable traces of Stone Age life were unearthed recently in northern Israel, including a pit of burned bean seeds and a carving of a penis that's more than 6,000 years old, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported.

• The Heshui White Paper Workshop Ensemble: The Art of Paper Making
  Art Daily
  In an age where smart phones and laptops have practically replaced the daily use of handwriting, the process of traditional paper making – still being practiced in some parts of the world – is a remarkable creation. One such facility is The Heshui White Paper Workshop Ensemble, situated at the foot to the famous Fanjing Mountain and along the banks of the Yinjiang River in the province of Guizhou, China. Crafts such as this belong to a country’s intangible heritage and also includes music, language & dialect, crafts, theatre and cuisine.

26 mars

• Conference Seeks to Protect Heritage of Tripoli, Lebanon
  Al-Monitor
  A warning cry will ring out in Paris on Tuesday [March 26] in defense of Tripoli’s historical landmarks and heritage, as well as to raise world awareness about the ancient Crusader, Mamluk (Islamic Dynasty) and Ottoman monuments located in Lebanon’s second largest city. It will also spotlight the abuse, destruction and neglect suffered by the city’s “living museum,” as its ancient market is known.

• Southwark museum fire: 500 artefacts saved but roof destroy
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  About 500 artefacts have been saved from a fire at a London museum but its roof has been destroyed.

25 mars

• Hundreds of firefighters battle blaze at south London museum
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  Hundreds of firefighters battled to contain a massive blaze after it engulfed a 107-year-old museum in London which is home to an extensive collection of artefacts from around the world.

• QUICKTAKE: Losing World Heritage in Syria’s Civil War
  Middle East Voices, Etats-Unis
  n Syria, much of the heaviest fighting between government forces and rebels seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad occurs on terrain with landmarks of immeasurable historical value . Videos and the global media report revolutionary brigades seeking shelter in medieval castles, flames destroying Aleppo’s shops dating back to medieval times (pictured above), and Syrian tanks taking positions among colonnades of Roman architecture.

• Technology helps Mexican archaeologists find new structures at El Tajin archaeological zone
  Art Daily
  Three ball fields, a couple of edifications denominated “balconies”, and a housing building of more than a thousand years old, where located in the Archaeological Zone of El Tajin, in Veracruz, by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

• In search of a king
  The Bangkok Post, Thaïlande
  The small discovery brought joy to the group _ a band of independent archaeologists who volunteered for a project supported by Association of Siamese Architects (ASA). Their mission was to verify royal relics of an Ayutthaya king on Myanmar soil.

• Celtic heritage: Project wins funding to explore origins
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  The mystery surrounding the origins of the Celtic people could be unravelled by a new three-year project.

24 mars

• LACMA announces 20,000 high-resolution images are available to users free of charge
  Art Daily
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art continues its innovative digital efforts with the launch of a new collections website that dramatically increases accessibility to the museum’s holdings. The new site (collections.lacma.org) allows visitors to quickly search and sort images and information based on the user’s individual preferences, ultimately providing quick and easy access to LACMA’s encyclopedic collection. In addition, visitors can now download nearly 20,000 high-quality images of public domain artworks from LACMA’s permanent collection without restriction on use.

• Ellis Island Museum Re-Open 'Not Likely' in 2013
  ABC, Etats-Unis
  The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which sustained severe damage to its infrastructure from the surging waters of Superstorm Sandy, is not expected to re-open to the public this year, the National Park Service said.

• More staff to resurrect archaeology dept.
  The Hindu, Inde
  In a move that will bring cheer to heritage lovers, the State government has ordered the State archaeology department to fill up 16 posts. They include those of archaeologists, epigraphists and curators in the department under which come 85 protected monuments, inscriptions and site museums in the State.

23 mars

• Mexico uncovers ancient pelota courts at Tajin site
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn't remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.

• Mummy Myths Debunked By New Study Of Ancient Egyptian Embalming Practices
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn't remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.

22 mars

• Ancient Sundial Discovered In Egypt's Valley Of The Kings Dates Back To 13th Century B.C.
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  Archaeologists in Mexico say they have uncovered three ancient playing fields at a pre-Hispanic site in the eastern state of Veracruz.

• Pre-Viking tunic found on glacier as warming trend aids archaeology
  NBC, Etats-Unis
  A pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology, scientists said on Thursday.

21 mars

• Roman Ruins Yield Clues About Earthquake Risk In Ancient Times, Today
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  The way the massive stone blocks making up a Roman mausoleum in Turkey were knocked off-kilter reveals clues to the power of the earthquake that rocked the structure.

• Antique, crumbling Japanese silk paintings at Decatur House get new life after 140 years
  The Washington Post, Etats-Unis
  The geisha girl has her black hair pulled back and fixed with a long hairpin and red ribbon. Her floor-length kimono is light brown, trimmed in blue made from powdered azurite. Her skin is the color of a pearl.

• Restoring legacy: Funds flow in for Balaji Ghat
  The Times of India, Inde
  VARANASI: Balaji Ghat, an iconic landmark built by Balaji Peshwa in 1735 on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi that finds a place in World Monuments Watch List 2012 for decaying heritage, is today in the process of restoration. The restoration of the ghat is a joint effort of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), the Scindia Devasthan Trust, and World Monuments Fund ( WMF).

• Facelift for Panthéon, Paris's grande dame
  The Art Newspaper
  Building that has become an expression of national pride to undergo a €100m restoration lasting ten years—but funding is still to be found.

20 mars

• Seven paintings stolen during World War II returned to heirs in emotional Paris ceremony
  Art Daily
  Six paintings that fell into the hands of the Nazis after their Jewish industrialist owner was forced to sell in order to flee occupied Paris in 1941 were on Tuesday returned to his grandson.

• AL needs precise size for buffer zones around heritage sites
  Macau Daily Times, Chine
  Legislators yesterday asked the government for a precise size of the buffer zones that will be set around cultural heritage sites.

19 mars

• A SWAT Team for Waterlogged Artwork
  The New York Times, Etats-Unis
  The patient was in rough shape. Held down by weights on a low wooden table inside a Brooklyn loft, the large mural had suffered numerous wounds: bleeding ink, buckled paper, a torn corner and light brown staining. The damage was enough to make its creator, Marlene McCarty, well up with tears.

• Valcamonica rock carvings brought to life in digital animations
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  Results of project to digitise one of the greatest galleries of prehistoric art go on display for first time in UK

18 mars

• Egyptian Cemetery In Amarna Yields Skeletons That Spotlight Plight Of Ancient Commoners
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests.

• Thieves in Half-Billion Dollar Art Heist Identified By FBI
  ABC, Etats-Unis
  Twenty-three years to the day that thieves stole irreplaceable artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, federal authorities announced they had identified the people responsible for the half-billion dollar heist.

• Medieval Remains, Dwindling Butterflies and Chatterboxes
  The New York Times, United States
  This week’s opening category is “interesting stuff buried in the British Isles.”

• Self-portrait bequeathed to National Trust is identified as lost Rembrandt
  The Guardian , Royaume-Uni
  A portrait of a man with a wry expression and an absurd hat, bequeathed to the National Trust as a good but anonymous and relatively low-value 17th-century painting, has been identified as a self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn worth up to £20m – though the trust has said it will never be sold.

• Public may be allowed to initiate classification of heritage sites
  Macau Daily Times, Chine
  The government promised to study the feasibility of allowing a group of citizens to initiate a procedure for assessing if a site is a cultural heritage one or not, according to the Legislative Assembly (AL)’s 3rd Standing Committee.

17 mars

• Afghanistan's heritage is at stake
  The Independent, Royaume-Uni
  One of the country's richest archaeological treasures sits on top of vast copper reserves now sold to the Chinese.

• UNESCO threatens to axe old Sanaa from world heritage list
  Al Arabiya, Emirats arabes unis
  Famous for its unique mud brick tower houses and labyrinthine souqs and listed as a world heritage site by the United Nations, Yemen’s old city of Sanaa is now under serious threat.

16 mars

• Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery?
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  It already attracts more than a million visitors a year. Yet these numbers could be dwarfed once Stonehenge, one of the world's greatest prehistoric monuments, completes its radical facelift.

15 mars

• Ancient Chinese coin found on Kenyan island of Manda by Field Museum expedition
  Art Daily
  A joint expedition of scientists led by Chapurukha M. Kusimba of The Field Museum and Sloan R. Williams of the University of Illinois at Chicago has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that shows trade existed between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and changed the map of the world.

• Builders unearth Medieval plague victims in City of London square
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  Seven centuries after their demise, the skeletons of 12 plague victims have been unearthed in the City of London, a find which archaeologists believe to be just the tip of a long-lost Black Death mass burial ground.

• İzmir looks for input on restoration plan
  Hürriyet Daily News, Turquie
  With a new project, İzmir’s historic area of Kadifekale, featuring an ancient theater, an agora and Kemeraltı, will be revived for tourism with the input of locals. New areas expected to draw tourists will also be created in the locale without destroying the historical texture.

14 mars

• Thessaloniki metro: Ancient dilemma for modern Greece
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  Rather than joy and excitement, the unearthing of what an academic called "a Byzantine Pompeii" at the heart of modern day Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, has caused bitter controversy in a country clutching at economic straws.

13 mars

• Neanderthal large eyes 'caused their demise'
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.

• Serbian police find Rembrandt stolen in 2006, painting already been stolen 10 years earlier
  Art Daily
  Serbian police have recovered a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt that was stolen in 2006, and arrested four people, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

• 'Medieval knight' unearthed in Edinburgh car park dig
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  The remains of a medieval knight or nobleman found underneath a car park are to be moved to make way for a university building.

• A marriage restored
  The Art Newspaper
  The Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts became the first American museum to own a painting by William Hogarth when, in 1909, its director bought the pendant portraits William James and Mrs William James, 1744, from a London dealer for $15,000—a bargain, as negotiations had begun at $20,000.

12 mars

• Historic Macedonia Tower to become museum
  Hürriyet Daily News, Turquie
  Edirne’s Macedonia Tower will become an archeology museum following restorations. The tower is one of the four greatest ramparts of a castle built in the northwestern province of Edirne during the Roman Empire and it is keeping it’s attraction for the cultural events as it’s secrets reveal.

• Thailand hurries to list cultural icons
  The Bangkok Post, Thaïlande
  The Ministry of Culture says it is speeding up efforts to make Thailand party to Unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage, and seeks support from the public for planned legislation.

• New deal for donors with problem antiquities
  The Art Newspaper
  How art museums across North America collect archaeology and ancient art in an ethical way, avoiding the harm to institutional reputations and financial losses incurred if an item turns out to be looted, is under the spotlight after the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) changed its guidelines for its 200-plus members at the end of January.

• Afghanistan moves to salvage ancient Buddhist city – and its economy
  The McClatchy Company, Etats-Unis
  It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban’s destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country’s west: A buried Buddhist city lost to time was about to be obliterated by what promised to be one of the largest copper mines in the world.

11 mars

• Ancient Infrared-Emitting Egyptian Pigment Could Be Useful as Nano-Ink
  Scientific American, Etats-Unis
  An ancient Egyptian pigment -- apparently humanity's first artificial pigment -- could soon find new life-enabling modern high-tech applications such as telecommunications networks and state-of-the-art biomedical imaging, according to researchers.

• Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History confirms paleontological site in Oaxaca
  Art Daily
  To Spanish pre Historian Eudald Carbonell, the labor of a field archaeologist is planetary and, when one (archaeologist) works on the evolution of men, a country must not be considered as a boundary. What truly is fundamental is the knowledge and the thinking that regards human beings. Under this premise, he came to excavate a site in North America for the first time: Chazumba, Oaxaca, where investigators from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered a paleontological site with possible human presence.

• Kingsmead Quarry dig unearths Neolithic settlement
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  Four Neolithic houses found in a Berkshire quarry are thought to make up one of the oldest permanent settlements ever found in England.

• Donkey, Sacrificed In Bronze-Age Ritual, Was Buried With Status Symbol
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  Archaeologists in southern Israel say they've uncovered a young donkey that was carefully laid to rest on its side more than 3,500 years ago, complete with a copper bridle bit in its mouth and saddle bags on its back.

10 March

• Syria's priceless heritage under attack
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world's most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday.

9 mars

• Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite, say archaeologists
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world's most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday.

• Ancient city Troy to have own museum
  Hürriyet Daily News, Turquie
  Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Troy in Çanakkale say it will still take two or three more centuries for it to be unveiled in its entirety. Currently, Troy to have a museum.

• Original Van Dyck unearthed at Bowes Museum in Durham
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  A painting that has been languishing in a museum store for decades, regarded as an undistinguished copy, has been confirmed as a 17th-century original by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, one of the most fashionable and expensive artists of his day.

8 mars

• World Monuments Fund announces grant to support restoration of cultural heritage damaged in Japan
  Art Daily
  On the eve of the second anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, World Monuments Fund announced today a $250,000 grant to advance the efforts of the local community in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to restore and preserve its historic cityscape that was damaged in that catastrophic natural disaster. The grant will be presented at a ceremony held at Kesennuma City Hall on March 10.

• Australian uranium discovery threatens ancient indigenous cave art
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  One of the world's biggest uranium producers has found a significant deposit in a remote tropical Australian mountain range near sandstone galleries holding some of the oldest and most spectacular rock art on the planet.

7 mars

• Four 6,000-year-old houses discovered in Berkshire
  The Guardian, Royaume-Uni
  A settlement of four houses whose construction has been dated back 6,000 years has been discovered in a Berkshire quarry, putting them among the oldest houses in England.

• Italy Mobilizes to Rebuild Naples Science Museum
  Science Magazine, Etats-Unis
  The Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry for Territorial Cohesion, the local government, and the mayor of Naples have agreed on a plan to make available €20 million for its reconstruction, according to an article in La Repubblica. The European Union also appears willing to look into the situation.

• Stone Age Skeletons Unearthed In Libya's Sahara Desert Spotlight Gender Divide
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  Archaeologists have uncovered 20 Stone-Age skeletons in and around a rock shelter in Libya's Sahara desert, according to a new study.

• A Guardian of Rare, Exotic Fabrics
  The Wall Street Journal, Etats-Unis
  Textile conservationistJulia Brennan has helped institutions restore everything from Abraham Lincoln's coat to a kimono given to Babe Ruth when the baseball all-stars visited Japan in 1934.

6 mars

• Suitcase used by one of the suspects in Dutch art heist found during a search in Romania: police
  Art Daily
  Romanian investigators have found a suitcase allegedly used to hide seven masterpieces by artists such as Gauguin, Monet and Picasso stolen in October from a Dutch museum, judicial sources said Tuesday.

• Mummy Head, Europe's Oldest-Known Preserved Human Dissection, To Go On Display
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  In the second century, an ethnically Greek Roman named Galen became doctor to the gladiators. His glimpses into the human body via these warriors' wounds, combined with much more systematic dissections of animals, became the basis of Islamic and European medicine for centuries.

• Iraq National Library Destruction: The Incredible Fight To Save Iraq's Collective Memory
  The Huffington Post, Etats-Unis
  The 2003 invasion of Iraq had many casualties, not the least of which was the collective memory of a nearly 5,000-year-old civilization, stretching from ancient cuneiform on clay tablets to the voluminous personal records of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

5 mars

• Italian Science Museum Burns
  Science Magazine, Etats-Unis
  The Città della Scienza (City of Science) complex in Naples, which was home to an interactive science museum, educational and conference facilities, and a business incubator, all went up in smoke last night.

• Massive facelift for ‘Juno’ at the MFA
  The Boston Globe, Etats-Unis
  “Juno,’’ all 13 feet and 13,000 pounds of her, didn’t make a peep as the wraps came off last week. The Museum of Fine Arts staffers who got a glimpse of the statue’s new nose and mouth found it harder to keep quiet. After all, they are not made of marble.

• Dutch police arrest Romanian woman over art heist; girlfriend of one of three suspects
  Art Daily
  Dutch police on Monday arrested a young Romanian woman on suspicion of helping smuggle a haul of masterpieces stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum out of the country.

4 mars

• Historic town walls crumbling 'because of climate change'
  The Telegraph, Royaume-Uni
  For centuries they stood firm against marauding Welsh invaders but now the historic walls of Ludlow are said to be under threat from a new enemy – climate change.

• Protecting cultural sites from bushfire
  ABC, Australie
  Lionel Dukakis' role within the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) is not well known but it is vitally important when it comes to preserving aboriginal cultural heritage sites during bushfires. He is currently trying to save cultural sites in the area affected by the Harrietville Alpine bushfire.

• NRICH formed to enrich heritage data
  The Indian Express, Inde
  Jangan Gayan, Phad, Patola, Hingan, Gaddi Jattar, Kolam, Chettikulangara Khumbha Bharani, Ranmale, Sankheda Nu Lakh Kam...The names may be alien to most of the Indians, except to people living in those places where these oral traditions or art forms are still practiced.

2 mars

• Archaeologists find Friedrich Engels' club
  BBC, Royaume-Uni
  A club where Friedrich Engels spent time during his early years in England has been uncovered by archaeologists in Manchester

• After Hurricane Sandy dealt New York a powerful blow, ongoing repairs keep Statue of Liberty closed
  Art Daily
  Damage wreaked on the Statue of Liberty by Hurricane Sandy has yet to be fully repaired, and it remains unclear when the New York icon will again welcome tourists from around the world.

1 mars

• The Ramayana's epic journey into the digital world
  The Guardian , Royaume-Uni
  This ancient tale has resonated down the centuries, and the British Library's digitisation sees it finding a new home in the 21st century.

mise à jour : 02.04.2013