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NEWS ABOUT: artifacts

artifacts stories: 8 news summaries
ANALYSIS

 'Jesus Burial Box' 
 Trial Gets Thorny 

Judge skeptical after witnesses seemingly contradict own testimony

Sep 5, 09 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The public is already frowning on a Tel Aviv man accused of forging the burial box of Jesus' brother James, but the judge in the case has hinted that the case is weak, Matthew Kalman writes in Time. Two scientists, witnesses for the prosecution, have testified that geological conditions could... More »

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Israel • research • scientists • Tel Aviv • artifacts • Jesus Christ • forgery

 US to Return 
 $10M Stolen 
 Art Stash to Italy 

'Treasure trove' of looted antiques uncovered in Chicago home

Jun 9, 09 1:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A huge stash of stolen artifacts found in a Chicago home will be returned to Italy by US authorities, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The artifacts—including letters written by kings and popes, and Etruscan works thousands of years old—were discovered by the homeowner's heirs after his death, and are... More »

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Chicago • art • theft • Italy • Illinois • artifacts • antique

Tech Breathes New Life Into Ancient Manuscripts

Digitization, scanning of crumbling manuscripts preserves history

May 8, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ancient documents have long odds of making it to the present intact, between fires and bugs and the other ravages of time. But today’s technology can tease information even out of charred papyrus scrolls, thanks to CT scans, infrared imaging, and X-ray fluorescence. And from there, digital images can... More »

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technology • artifacts • preservation • digitizing • ancient history • ancient writings

 For Sale: Soviet Sub, 
 Very Rusty 

Cold War relic once used in Harrison Ford film is too costly to restore, RI museum says

Dec 25, 08 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The former Soviet submarine used in Harrison Ford’s film K-19: The Widowmaker may be sunk for good. The cruise-missile sub, which served as a floating museum in a Rhode Island river until it foundered in a 2007 storm, will be sold for scrap if no one buys it by... More »

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museums • Cold War • submarine • restoration • Rhode Island • artifacts • relics • Harrison Ford • former Soviet state

Alps Artifacts Offer Clues
to Climate Change

Ancient objects
emerge as Swiss
glacier melts

Sep 6, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has revealed hundreds of ancient artifacts, providing valuable information about both history and climate change through the ages, AFP reports. The area was walkable only during warm periods when the glacier receded. “The site itself is the most important find because we... More »

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climate change • environment • archaeology • Switzerland • glacier • artifacts • Alps

GLOSSIES

 Vast Trove 
 Yields Marilyn Secrets 

Papers from unearthed Monroe filing cabinets suggest abortion

Sep 3, 08 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Filing cabinets stuffed with receipts and letters are opening a window into Marilyn Monroe’s personal life, Vanity Fair reports. Payments for something "medical" coincide with her 1953 hospitalization for a gynecological procedure, suggesting an abortion, and notes she sent to husband Arthur Miller’s children while they were... More »

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Vanity Fair • celebrity • Marilyn Monroe • Joe DiMaggio • artifacts • Robert F. Kennedy • Arthur Miller

Feds Raid Calif. Museums, Gallery in Stolen Art Case

Illegal artifacts donated for inflated tax deductions

Jan 25, 08 10:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Federal agents raided four California museums and a private gallery in a smuggling investigation into stolen foreign antiquities, reports the New York Times. The gallery allegedly imported looted goods from Thailand, Myanmar, and China, and individuals got inflated tax write-offs for donating them to museums. No charges have yet been... More »

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California • fraud • art • museums • looting • artifacts • art heist

Yale Returns Artifacts to Peru

Machu Picchu artifacts have been on display at Yale for a century

Sep 17, 07 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu almost a century ago for Yale's Peabody Museum will be returned, Yale and the Peruvian government announced on Friday. The collection to be returned consists of 380 museum-quality objects, as well as part of those in the research collection. Yale will grant... More »

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Yale University • Peru • Machu Picchu • Alan Garcia • Hiram Bingham III • artifacts

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