Dorcheat Historical Museum will present Digging Up Bones “Night for the Museum” With Mr. Jeff Girard on October 11th, 2010, “Night for the Museum” will celebrate archaeology month. Assistant Professor of Anthropology at NSU Mr. [Read More]
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On September 16, 2010, Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the 1910 Revolution that led to the formation of its modern republic. In recognition of these significant [Read More]
Tullie House launches urgent appeal to keep rare Roman find in Cumbria The Crosby Garrett Helmet a major Roman find of national significance, found in North Cumbria, will be auctioned by Christie’s South Kensington, in [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum Presents Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh open Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011 in the Mellon Gallery. This landmark exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum [Read More]
The Iraq Foreign Ministry held big celebration to deliver Iraqi antiquities from numerous countries to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Iraq National Museum. The celebration was attended in addition to the Foreign [Read More]
The British Museum is lending the Cyrus Cylinder to the National Museum of Iran for an exhibition that will open for four months in Tehran on 12 September. Together with two fragments of contemporary cuneiform [Read More]
Kansas City, MO – A powerful image of the face of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has been created by special agents/forensic artists from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, [Read More]
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, open October 17, 2010–January 17, 2011, offers visitors a unique glimpse of the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and [Read More]
One of the most fascinating pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Haremhab (reigned ca. 1323–1309 B. C.) was a strong leader in a time of political and religious transition. As commander-in-chief of Tutankhamun’s army, he oversaw important [Read More]
LOS ANGELES – Celebrating the bicentennial of Mexican independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology on view at the Getty Research Institute from November 16, 2010 [Read More]
The Kimbell Art Museum’s exhibition, Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, explores the profound influence of water on ancient Maya civilization and offers an entirely fresh way of viewing their art. The exhibition [Read More]
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Friday formally declared open the exhibition of China’s terracotta army in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. The exhibition is open through 16 January 2011. “This [Read More]
Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Read More]
Mummies of the World, the largest exhibition of mummies ever assembled, welcomed its 100,000th visitor Thursday, Aug. 19 – just seven weeks after its July 1 world premiere at the California Science Center. This benchmark [Read More]
A cast of a quartzite head of Amenhotep III (King of Egypt, 1390-1352 BC), has been joined to the body of a colossal statue of the ruler, which was found at Kom el-Hettan, Egypt. The [Read More]
The British Museum will be hosting the Antiques Roadshow in a special event on Thursday 2 September, 09.0 16.30 in the Museum Forecourt, Free entry, just drop in. Bring along your family heirlooms and household [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major international loan exhibition devoted to the art of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)—one of the most dynamic and culturally rich periods in Chinese history—beginning September 28. Bringing [Read More]
The Milwaukee Art Museum presents ‘Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware’ open September 2, 2010–January 17, 2011. Slipware, sculptural bottles, faience, and creamware are all part of the rich artistic legacy of North [Read More]