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** British Museum denies plan to return Parthenon pieces
The British Museum denied Friday that it was considering returning fragments
of sculptures from the Parthenon to Greece, as suggested by the director of
the Acropolis Museum in Athens a day earlier
** Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say
Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say
that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of
the Indo-European family of languages
** Amazing ancient bronzes given up by Calabrian sea
The three divers found a gilded bronze sculpture of a lion on a bronze
square panel and they also discovered what they initially thought was a
bronze set of armour, but which is now believed to be a statue, lodged
between some rocks on the seafloor around 300m from the lion
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** Norwegian gallery loses a Rembrandt in the mail
A Norwegian art gallery lost a Rembrandt etching worth up to $8,600 in the
mail after trying to save money on courier and insurance costs
** Archaeologists look for King Richard below British parking lot
A team from the University of Leicester believes the car lot was once the
site of a Franciscan friary where the medieval monarch was laid to rest 500
years ago
** Van Gogh to Kandinsky - Symbolist Landscape in Europe
The exhibition charts this path from Realism to Abstraction, which happens
to highlight quite how far ahead of his time American-born painter James
Whistler was
** Chinese pioneers of Ventura County
The Chinatowns that sprang up in Ventura and Oxnard in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries held together a tiny and hardscrabble community of
gritty people who had left their homeland to escape hardships only to find a
new slate of them here
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** Eight-legged puppies and monkey teeth in It Came from the Stores
Pig and monkey teeth, birds and plums in jars, a damaged giraffe skull,
stained heads of sheep and an eight-legged puppy (kept in store as one of
the archive exhibits which "don't fit with the rest of the displays") are
all here, as well as whelks, bear feet, books, paintings, pictures and
photographs
** Mexican archaeologists discover the burial of a high-ranking Zapotec
individual
The burial of a high ranked individual of the ancient zapotecan society,
accompanied by an offering, was discovered by archaeologists of the National
Institute of Anthropology and History, in the third tomb of the Aztompa
Archaeological Zone in Oaxaca
** Paint By Numbers
Among the preliminary findings, a single percentage point increase in Google
hits on the artist - the assigned indicator of popularity - corresponded to
a chunky price increase of 38 percent in auction prices
** He Made One Giant Step For Mankind
The music from Merseyside that rang in our ears, the assassination of
President Kennedy in Dallas and perhaps above all, the first footsteps on a
planet other than our own
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** Museum of Flight dives into assembling space-shuttle trainer
At Seattle's Museum of Flight, the space-shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer, used
to help prepare crews for all 135 U.S. shuttle missions, is being not just
reassembled but transformed into a centerpiece exhibit
** SC scientists trim years in conserving artifacts
Clemson University scientists have trimmed years from the time-consuming
process of conserving historic artifacts ranging from an old ax head to
Civil War shot and a ballast block from the Confederate submarine H.L.
Hunley
** From The Blogs - Homo erectus: A Highly Intelligent Seafaring
Boatbuilder?
I discovered a fascinating story that suggests Homo erectus was capable of
building boats and traveling over the sea - an activity which would have
required very high intelligence
** Museum donor wants his artifacts returned
A man who donated nearly 100 artifacts to the U.S. National Slavery Museum
says that even though a judge last week dismissed the museum's bankruptcy
case, he still doubts he'll ever see his artifacts on display
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** Major Russian Museum accused of art forgery
Experts from Russia's Ministry of Culture are expected to check out the
Russian Museum's depository in connection with the police investigation
** Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur
An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an
alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco;
the once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy
monkey in an ill-fitting tunic
** Smithsonian Museum Emptied After Guard's Suicide
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was evacuated and
closed Monday after a security guard was found dead of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound
** Living Above The Past: Museum Opens Up To Tenants
Spanning more than 250 years of American history, Strawbery Banke is the
oldest neighborhood in the state's oldest city, Portsmouth
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** Scientists Teach Chimpanzee To Conduct 3-Year Study On Primates
Noting that chimps share more than 96 percent of our genetic code, Indela
said he long ago became curious as to whether the animals could be taught to
engage in behaviors typically considered the exclusive terrain of Homo
sapiens, such as designing studies that further our understanding of
chimpanzee behavior, applying complex statistical models to data on
chimpanzees, and even filling out paperwork to ensure compliance with the
Animal Welfare Act (satire)
** The evolutionary history of dragons, illustrated by a scientist
It's true that these are mythical creatures, but the detail of their
portrayal in historical art and literature makes them amenable to scientific
analyses based on morphological variation
** Focusing on Photographs: Identification & Preservation
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
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** INCUNA 2012 programme of the 14th International Conference about
Industrial Heritage and Cultural landscapes
Gijón (Asturias- Spain) from the 26th to the 30th of September 2012.
** Document Detective Work
September 17 - October 26 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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