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week's edition include:
** Homage and heresy - Holy See lets faded missives see the light of day
A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan's grandson demanding homage from
Pope Innocent IV is among a collection of documents from the Vatican's
Secret Archives that has been published for the first time
** Massive statue of Egyptian pharaoh Taharqa found deep inside Sudan
According to a report in the Heritage Key, the site where the statue of the
pharaoh was discovered is located approximately 350 km northeast of the
modern Sudanese capital of Khartoum
** Jordan asks Canada to seize Dead Sea scrolls
Jordan has asked Canada to seize the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, on
display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, invoking international law
in a bid to keep the artefacts out of the hands of Israel until their
disputed ownership is settled
** Carnegie officials are bullish to display huge Dali work
An enormous stage curtain created by Salvador Dali for the Ballet Russe de
Monte Carlo has been unfurled at the Carnegie Museum of Art for the first
time since the museum acquired it 33 years
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** Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue
The established view is that Vincent did not learn of Theo's engagement
until after he mutilated his ear, but our research suggests that news of the
love affair reached him on 23 December
** Artist buys house to watch it fall in sea
The bottom line is that Knipe Point is a story of human misery, but we want
to get something more creative and positive out of it
** Brilliance is in the fine print
They can remind us, for instance, that Dürer's stress on originality and
invention set a new benchmark for artistic independence, ushering in ideas
of creative genius that are still with us today
** Mexica Sun Stone Inspires the Google Search Engine Logo
According to specialists, the Sun Stone was originally set in a horizontal
position and served as recipient of the heart and blood of defeated warriors
that were sacrificed as offering so the Sun could reappear each day,
overcoming the feminine nightly powers represented by the Moon and stars
** Cyber archaeology?
Since 2006, archaeology professor Ruth Tringham and her students at Berkeley
have been using the Second Life platform to reconstruct a full-scale virtual
model of Çatalhöyük, a 9,000-year-old Neolithic archaeological site in
central Turkey
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** Degas artwork stolen from museum
The item was on loan from the Musee D'Orsay, in Paris, as part of an
exhibition of Degas' work which was due to come an end on 3 January and
travel to Italy and Canada
** Nazi Propaganda Exhibit at the Holocaust Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is hosting a
special exhibition that focuses on the Nazis' extensive use of propaganda
before and during World War Two
** Picasso toy guitar found in Italy
Italian police have found a toy guitar sculpture created by Pablo Picasso
for his daughter Paloma, which had been kept in a shoe box by a businessman
** Sound the Trumpet: Music Museum Opening in Phoenix
Featuring both historic and contemporary instruments from around the globe,
the museum aims to help visitors better understand musical expression in
different cultures and in various aspects of life
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** 280-Million-Year-Old Reptiles' Last Meal Preserved
This strongly suggests that the pre-Dinosaur Era equivalent of today's
lizards feasted on insects, and it's the first known evidence for this
behaviour among vertebrates
** Chechnya's Favourite Russian: Leo Tolstoy
A museum devoted to the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy reopened this month in
the Chechen village where he spent formative years as a writer in the 1850s,
and warned then of the pitfalls of Russia's quest to tame the restive region
in the Northern Caucasus
** Ceremonial war bonnet returns to Comanche Nation
An early 20th century ceremonial war bonnet once belonging to former
Comanche Tribal Leader, William Karty, will soon be on display at the
Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center
** Chinese archaeologists 'discover' tomb of notorious pantomime villain
Cao Cao
Cao Cao, also known as the Emperor Wu of Wei, was a politician, general and
poet whose brilliance as a military strategist and wordsmith was tarnished
forever by the novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
** Chile confronts past with new museum
That Chile is recognizing victims of its military dictatorship in a striking
new "monument to memories" is positive, said Iglesias, both a victim and a
historian of Augusto Pinochet's bloody 17-year rule
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** Dramatic Carnegie Museum exhibit due for the top of the table
For many visitors of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the diorama
exhibit of a Barbary lion attacking a man on a camel is scary, unsettling
** The Top Ten Stories of the Last 4.5 Billion Years
Prominent ethnochoreologists now believe that roughly 20,000 years ago,
early humans finally consumed an amount of fermented fruits and vegetables
staggering enough to develop the impulsive series of rhythmic movements
known today as dancing
** European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences
The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the
History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held at the University of
Copenhagen, 16-19 September, 2010.
** Heritage Impact 2010
Socio-economic impact measurement, impact drivers and strategies for change
** New Perspectives on American Freemasonry and Fraternalism
Registration is now open for "New Perspectives on American Freemasonry and
Fraternalism" to be held at the National Heritage Museum
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