Egypt
- Book Fair Produces Fascinating Discovery: Theatrum Italiae (1663)
Wired.com (Joan Blaeu) Not much text, but some great pictures. Moving is never easy, and moving is especially difficult when you own a 327-ton Egyptian obelisk and you want it shifted 275 yards to sit right in front of the Vatican. Such was the...
- Back In The Lab - Archaeobotany From Amara West
British Museum blog (Philippa Ryan) With photos. Archaeobotany is the study of ancient plant remains, and I joined the field team at Amara West in Sudan earlier this year to collect samples for archaeobotanical analysis. Charred plant materials...
- Taking But Not Giving In New Zealand
New Zealand Herald (Brian Rudiman) Over the past decade, Te Papa's headhunters have been steadily working their way through a list of 120 institutions - mainly European museums - seeking the repatriation of toi moko. They are the mummified heads that...
- Stolen Bronze Relics Returned To Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online With photos. the four retrieved bronze statues Osiris as a child Today the tourism and antiquities police succeeded in retrieving four ancient Egyptian artefacts, two of which were reported missing...
- Repatriation: Louvre Items Returned To Egypt
France24 Gone are the days when young French writer André Malraux, who would go on to become France’s minister for culture, could chip off four sculptures from a Cambodian temple and ship them back to France. Almost a century later, the French government...
Egypt
Joan of Arc Relics actually Egypt mummy remains
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070404-joan-arc.html
I'm not sure why this seems so bizarre, but it does!: "The charred bones that were long believed to be remains of St. Joan of Arc don't belong to the French heroine but are instead the remains of an Egyptian mummy, a new study has shown. Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond Poincaré Hospital in Paris, France, obtained permission last year to study the relics from the church in Normandy where they are housed. The relics were said to have been retrieved from the French site where Joan was burned at the stake in 1431. Charlier's team studied the relics—including a fragment of cloth and a human rib—under the microscope and subjected them to chemical tests."
See the above two-page article for the full summary.
- Book Fair Produces Fascinating Discovery: Theatrum Italiae (1663)
Wired.com (Joan Blaeu) Not much text, but some great pictures. Moving is never easy, and moving is especially difficult when you own a 327-ton Egyptian obelisk and you want it shifted 275 yards to sit right in front of the Vatican. Such was the...
- Back In The Lab - Archaeobotany From Amara West
British Museum blog (Philippa Ryan) With photos. Archaeobotany is the study of ancient plant remains, and I joined the field team at Amara West in Sudan earlier this year to collect samples for archaeobotanical analysis. Charred plant materials...
- Taking But Not Giving In New Zealand
New Zealand Herald (Brian Rudiman) Over the past decade, Te Papa's headhunters have been steadily working their way through a list of 120 institutions - mainly European museums - seeking the repatriation of toi moko. They are the mummified heads that...
- Stolen Bronze Relics Returned To Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online With photos. the four retrieved bronze statues Osiris as a child Today the tourism and antiquities police succeeded in retrieving four ancient Egyptian artefacts, two of which were reported missing...
- Repatriation: Louvre Items Returned To Egypt
France24 Gone are the days when young French writer André Malraux, who would go on to become France’s minister for culture, could chip off four sculptures from a Cambodian temple and ship them back to France. Almost a century later, the French government...