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** Sotheby's to auction 1st known map of U.S. city
When Sir Francis Drake's ships attacked and raided St. Augustine in 1586,
Italian draftsman and cartographer Giovanni Battisa Boazio was aboard to
record the details in what is believed to be the earliest printed plan of
any U.S. city
** Art Historians To Use High-Quality Digital Images Free
The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled today a long-awaited program that
will make high-resolution digital images of works in its collection freely
available to scholars
** 160,000-year-old jawbone redefines origins of the species
The latest find shows that the key time in the development of a complex
human society came much earlier than previously thought
** Russian war booty in pictures
Treasures seized by Soviet forces in Germany at the end of World War II are
on show in Moscow for the first time
** Museums brush off the dust
One of the things he has figured out is that the most crucial element of a
museum experience is not what's actually on display inside - or even how
it's displayed - but what the visitor expects from his or her visit
** Eight millennia of history
A jade cabbage with a grasshopper and a beetle carved on its delicate leaves
gleams under a spotlight in the darkened space of Gallery 308 in Taipei's
National Palace Museum
** Europe's oldest book soon to be deciphered
A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all
that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book -
which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs
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** Italian senator chains himself to museum gates to protest loan of
Leonardo masterpiece
The case has stirred up controversy in the world of Italian art, where
conflicts over the management of the country's cultural treasures are
frequent and loans of masterpieces to foreign countries cause considerable
anxiety
** Stolen museum items recovered and thief killed
The man who stole artefacts from the Fort Morgan Museum last year shot and
killed himself as authorities followed close behind to arrest him
** Renowned poet's artwork, touched up by prudish janitor
The creative phase set in Sandusky, was a potent concoction of high romance,
impromptu painting, and prudish vandalism
** The Guinness Book of the Ancient World
There was no annually published Guinness Book of Records to keep track, but
the ancient Greeks and Romans were crazy about setting and breaking records
** Exhibit Displays Nazis' Deadly Medicine
But the idea behind eugenics - improving a population's health through
genetics - was hardly unique to Germany, as shown by a travelling exhibit
developed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
** Afterlife wasn't meant to be easy
Because the workmanship on this one is so fine, they couldn't just scrape
her name off in all the places it was mentioned - so they rededicated it, so
that all the advantages Tanethep once had were now given to somebody new
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** Exhibit Shows Port Royal's Gentler Side
Port Royal was the main city of the English colony of Jamaica in the 17th
century, attracting both pirates and merchants until the devastating
earthquake of 1692, which submerged part of the town
** Head of art museum pleads guilty to tax fraud
The head of a little-known art museum that has no facility pleaded guilty to
defrauding the government in an attempt to boost his ailing nonprofit
** A Celebrity Warship Gets a Hall of Fame to Call Its Own
So why, after 145 years, $15 million in oceanic explorations and more than a
decade of dives and excavation, is the Civil War battleship the Monitor
being given a second life at a cost of $30 million, with its artefacts,
history and accounts of its career displayed in a 63,500-square-foot space?
** Man convicted in Russian museum theft
Zavadsky confessed that he and his wife were involved in the thefts, which
occurred over several years, but claimed that he was only assisting his
wife, who he said had played a leading role
** Forbidden City to host British history exhibition
The exhibition will explore Britain's engagement with the world during the
Georgian period when the nation was emerging as an international power
** New exhibit tells story of human life on American continents
A new exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago seeks to illustrate that the
Western Hemisphere was home to hundreds of diverse societies established
long before Spanish explorers arrived
** 11th Biennial Symposium - Call For Papers
** Digitization Workshop Scheduled for Wilmington, DE
** Liverpool Remembers Slavery
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