The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a collaborative group of California scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), The Aerospace Corporation, and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) at Stanford $495,723 [Read More]
Antiquities
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English Heritage’s proposals to transform the setting of Stonehenge and the visitor experience received a major boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund on 19 November 2010 with a grant of £10 million. Computer generated view [Read More]
The British Museum’s major Autumn exhibition, supported by BP, will present and explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will showcase the rich textual [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum is to present Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, opening Feb. 13, 2011, exploring the convergence of art and spirituality in medieval times. This is the first [Read More]
The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents The first emperor : China’s entombed warriors, open 2 Dec – 13 Mar 2011. One of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century, the incredible life-size [Read More]
The National Museum of Singapore presents Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town 79CE, open through 23 JAN 2011. Exhibition organised by Melbourne Museum and Soprintendenza Speciale per i beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei. In [Read More]
The Danish queen Margrethe II is not only a queen, she is also passionately interested in the past and archaeology. Life-size photographs and the queen’s voice guide visitors through the exhibition. The queen has been [Read More]
The Crosby Garrett Helmet went ‘under the hammer’ at Christie’s. Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery were represented at auction but with unprecedented global interest and a final hammer price of £2,000,000 were unfortunately unable [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, open October 2, 2010–January 9, 2011. Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC, was centered in the Gulf Coast [Read More]
Texas debut for this landmark exhibition, with more than 100 objects from the tomb of King Tut and other legendary ancient sites The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will host Tutankhamun: The Golden King [Read More]
The Smart Museum of Art presents Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan open through January 16, 2011. Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan, pronounced [Read More]
Exhibition Features More than 200 Artifacts on View for the First Time in the United States Cyprus, the eastern-most island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, has been [Read More]
Dot Boughton, Portable Antiquities Finds Liaison Officer for Cumbria, is to give a special free talk at Kendal Museum on Friday 1 October, at 7.30pm, uncovering the story of how the rarest Roman helmet to [Read More]
The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos [Read More]
The Fleming Museum is to present Shadows of the Samurai: Japanese Warrior Traditions, open October 14, 2010 – May 11, 2011 in the Wolcott Gallery. Samurai culture and the code of conduct known as bushido, [Read More]
The Science Museum of Minnesota will show an exhibition of King Tut artifacts – Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, from Feb. 18 to Sept. 5 2011. Experience the riches of royal life [Read More]
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the “Beauty of Xiaohe” seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, [Read More]
No other king from antiquity has such a powerful appeal to the imagination as Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Nor other king has been so often cited and depicted as an example. The exhibition The [Read More]