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La Grande-Bretagne acquiert le Trésor de Staffordshire

Pyramid mounts and an inscribed strip from the Anglo-Saxon gold Staffordshire hoard which has now received a £1.3m Heritage grant to meet the £3.3m total required for it to remain in Midlands museums. Photograph: Staffordshire hoard website/PA LONDRES...

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Tags: Anglo-Saxon, National Heritage Memorial Fund, Staffordshire, Trésor de Staffordshire

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20 mars 2010

Rome to display "The Morgantina Treasure" Returned by the Metropolitan

A table ornament part of a collection of ancient Greek silverware dating to the third century B.C., on display in Rome, Friday, March 19, 2010, after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The 16 pieces of silverware with gold detail,...

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Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Morgantina Treasure", Museo Nazionale Romano

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17 mars 2010

"Tutankhamun’s Funeral" @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Floral collar. Diam. 47 cm (18 ½ in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909 NEW YORK, NY.- n 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage...

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Tags: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amenhotep III, Tutankhamun, Akhenaten

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3 mars 2010

Important Antiquities Sale to be Held at Christie's in April

Fish plate. Estimate: £4,000-5,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010. LONDON.- As part of the specialised sales on offer in South Kensington, Christie’s announced the upcoming Antiquities sale, to be held on 29 April 2010. The first Christie’s sale composed...

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Tags: roman marble, Satyre, Aphrodite, Roger Peyrefitte

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2 mars 2010

Massive Head of Famous Pharaoh Amenhotep III Unearthed in Egypt

The newly unearthed 3,400-year old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the city of Luxor. Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed...

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Tags: Egypt, Amenhotep III, Hourig Sourouzian, Luxor

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28 février 2010

“Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt” @ The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

Colossal Head of Caesarion, Alexandria, 1st century BCE, Granodiorite. H. 2.6 ft / W. 1.9 ft / D. 1.6 ft. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation. Photo: Christoph Gerigk. PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to the sea and sand for...

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Tags: Sphinx, Egypt, granodiorite, Cleopatra, Alexandria, Caesarion, Ptolemy XII, The Franklin Institute

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26 février 2010

"Byzanz: Splendour and Everyday Life" @ the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn

Perfume brazier, 12th century, San Marco, Venice; © Procuratoria della Basilica di San Marco, Venezia BONN.- Presenting more than 600 magnificent and historically meaningful exhibits and important artefacts from collections and archaeological excavations...

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Tags: 12th Century, Byzantine, Constantinople, Constantine I

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23 février 2010

Important Antiquities Lent by Republic of Italy on View at Metropolitan Museum

'Terracotta Kylix' (drinking cup), Greek, Laconian, ca. 575-560 B.C. Attributed to the Boread Painter. From Cerveteri, Banditaccia cemetery, tomb 1, inv. 106335. Interior, Boreads pursuing harpies, with a sphinx below. Lent by the Republic of Italy, 2010....

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Tags: Pompeii, Roman, greek, Laconian, Moregine Silver Treasury, the Boread Painter

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11 février 2010

"To Live Forever" @ the Brooklyn Museum

'Mummy Mask of a Man', Early 1st century C.E. Stucco, gilded, and painted, (51.5 x 33 x 20 cm) 20 1/4 x 13 x 7 7/8 in. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Brooklyn Museum BROOKLYN, NY.- Through more than one hundred objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned...

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Tags: Ancient Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Mummy

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10 février 2010

Bonhams to Sell Roman Bust that Links Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

The filming of the 'Taming of the Shrew in Rome' in 1967 brought all these creative people together in a project that was critically acclaimed. LONDON.- A lovely Roman marble bust that film director, Franco Zeffirrelli gave as a wedding gift to friends...

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Tags: Richard Burton, roman marble, Elizabeth Taylor, Franco Zeffirrelli

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