Peacekeepers 'deface ancient art'
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Peacekeepers in Western Sahara have vandalised ancient rock paintings with graffiti, a UN official tells a UK paper.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist said.
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Dutch authorities have destroyed a piece of public art meant to memorialize slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh because it included the phrase "Thou shalt not kill." According to Radio Netherlands, the Volkskrant ...
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the departure of Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany, a German artist has mounted a major exhibit using Red Army detritus unearthed from long-abandoned ...
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Hundreds of biblical artefacts in museums all over the world could be fakes, it has emerged after Israeli investigators uncovered what they claim is a sophisticated forgery ring.
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Israeli archaeologists charged on Thursday that digging overseen by Islamic religious leaders at a hotly disputed Jerusalem holy site damaged a wall that might date back to the Bible.
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Nearly 70 ancient artifacts that Italy says were looted and sold to galleries abroad have been retrieved will now go on public display in a Rome exhibition, the minister of culture said on Tuesday.
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Scientific testing of recently-found paintings supposedly by Jackson Pollock has cast doubt on their authenticity.
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Supposedly ancient Chinese terracotta  warriors on show at a German museum are fakes, China confirmed  Thursday, condemning the organizers for cheating the public.
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A stolen collection of about 100 artifacts dating back more than 7,000 years Â including what appear to be very early human portraits Â were displayed in Greece Tuesday, for the first time since being smuggled to Germany.
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A painting in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow was looted from its Jewish owners and must be returned.
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WARSAW, Jan 16  Poland's Defence Ministry today denied charges that Polish troops in Iraq had damaged the site of ancient Babylon, one of the world's most famous archaeological treasures, while using ...
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Chinese authorities have demolished a statue of a Buddhist master at Tibet's oldest monastery, an activist group said Friday, the latest act in what critics say is an effort by Beijing to dilute Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.
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A state lawmaker removed two pieces of art from a Capitol exhibit organized by a group opposed to the death penalty because he found the images inappropriate and objectionable.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war &#151; a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.