BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artifacts at Iraq's National Museum online, the Web search leader said on ...
Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in ...
A bronze coin with a palm tree dated by Israeli archaeologists to 69 AD, part of an exhibition displayed at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. The Israel Antiquities Authority displayed for the first time Wednesday a ...
Israeli museum displays coins from Jewish revolt, destruction of biblical Jerusalem Temple Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. About 70 coins ...
Egypt and Getty institute to embark on 5-year renovation of King Tut's tomb Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers of the boy king whose golden mask ...
Restoration work will begin on the tomb of Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamen, Egypt's antiquities department said on Tuesday. The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has partnered with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to work on the conservation and management of ...
18th century-style coffeehouse opening at Colonial Williamsburg Don't expect soy lattes or Internet access for your laptop, but your next visit to Colonial Williamsburg could include a stop in a coffeehouse. Visitors will be able to experience an 18th century-style coffeehouse when ...
French first lady Bruni-Sarkozy tells TV show of her 8 years `body and soul' in psychoanalysis During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought. But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove ...
In a dark space in a new exhibition at Arles museum in southern France, underwater sounds play over looped video footage of scientists on underwater digs along the Rhone riverbed. An intrepid team of archaeologists have been diving for 20 years, struggling ...
Archaeologist: Beads, metal tools suggest 16th-century explorer de Soto passed through Ga. An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando ...
A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday. The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centrepiece of Berlin's "Neues Museum", which ...
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 04: A museum curator stands over metal detector enthusiast David Booth's hoard of Iron Age Gold on November 4, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The gold Iron Age torcs were unearthed on private land in Stirlingshire and date from ...
