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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:02 PM

British Museum

Type: Organization

Name: British Museum

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Babylon Revisited

Last Saturday I wrote a deploring the archeological fraternity's relentless and exaggerated criticism of the U.S. for allowing damage to Iraq's heritage. From the Baghdad museum to ancient sites around Iraq--most prominently the site of Babylon, where ... [Forbes.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Babylon (United States), Iraq, Looting

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents

On This Day: Piltdown Man, Supposed “Missing Link,” Exposed as Hoax

On Nov. 21, 1953, British scientists revealed that the fossils of the Piltdown man, discovered in 1912, was a composite of human and orangutan skulls doctored to look like an early human skull.In 1912, British antiquarian Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith ... [findingDulcinea / Beyond The Headlines - 1 hour ago]

Entities: British Museum, Charles Dawson, Fossil

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Prepare to celebrate LGBT History Month

Prepare to celebratHundreds of teachers, policymakers, academics and community activists will gather at the British Museum on Thu 19 Nov, to make plans for the biggest ever celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans , throughout Feb 2010.The evening ... [Fyne Times - 11/16/2009]

Entities: LGBT, British Museum, Imperial War Museum

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Who Should Own the Rosetta Stone?

Should the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt? Should the export of a nation's "cultural property" be banned? Should there be laws giving national governments ownership of any antiquity unearthed today within their borders? ... [TierneyLab - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Rosetta (Egypt), British Museum, Egypt

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

John Tierney

Who Should Own the Rosetta Stone?

Should the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt? Should the export of a nation?s ?cultural property? be banned? Should there be laws giving national governments ownership of any antiquity unearthed today within their borders?In my Findings ... [New York Times - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Rosetta (Egypt), Egypt, Astronomy, John Tierney, British Museum

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 4 Documents

Tim Clark

Japanese manga comes to London's British Museum

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu has brought his popular character Professor Munakata to London's British Museum, featuring some of the collection's most famous treasures in his drawings.In a single-room display near the ... [Reuters - 11/09/2009]

Entities: British Museum, Japan, London, Tim Clark

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 2 Documents

Original thinking

The booming interest in archaeology suggests a new quest for identity in a time of rapid changeQuestion Time descended into pure farce when Nick Griffin was challenged by Bonnie Greer to define what he meant by the 'indigenous' peoples of Britain. It ... [Guardian.co.uk - 10/26/2009]

Entities: British Museum, Nick Griffin, Elgin (United Kingdom), Madeleine Bunting, United Kingdom

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 2 Documents

Treasure on show in London as another trove found (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) - The most important treasure trove found in Britain for decades went on display in London on Tuesday, the same day that another discovery valued at a million pounds was reported found in Scotland.The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered by ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/03/2009]

Entities: London, British Museum, Scotland, 3rd century BC

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Chinese anger at seal sale

China has reacted angrily to the sale of an 18th century Qing Dynasty seal by Sotheby's in London. An Imperial Khotan-Green Jade Seal is pictured at Sothebys auction house in London Photo: AFP/GETTY The green jade seal, belonging to the emperor Qian ... [Telegraph - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Qing Dynasty, China, Sotheby's

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 2 Documents

Buckingham Palace was IRA target

The IRA identified Buckingham Palace and hundreds of MPs and soldiers as possible targets on a terrorist 'attack list'. Newly released files show that a raid on a north London flat used as an IRA bomb factory in the 1970s yielded a list with a huge number ... [ITN - 10/28/2009]

Entities: London, Tate Britain, Madame Tussauds, British Museum, University College London

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 2 Documents

A banana republic police HQ maybe, but not a home for the Elgin marbles

I am a restitutionist – but the new museum fails to clinch the case. It is not so much an argument as a punch in the faceIn 1812 Lord Elgin loaded the last of his Acropolis sculptures on to ships in Piraeus and set sail for England. Four years later and ... [Guardian Unlimited - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Athens, Elgin (United Kingdom), British Museum, Bernard Tschumi

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 2 Documents

Prince of Wales backs campaign to tidy streets

The Prince of Wales has backed a campaign to rid Britains streets of unsightly development and clutter . The Prince of Wales sent a message of support Photo: GETTY Street Pride aims to help community volunteers take an active role to prevent local roads, ... [Telegraph - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Wales, Clutter, Griff Rhys Jones

Quotes

...Barbash, an Egyptologist, feels that Hawass has done right by Egypt. 'He is a very well-educated man,' she says. "He promotes the building of museums with better facilities, expeditions to Egypt--archaeological expeditions--so I think it's a good thing." The BritishBritish Museum, which has the Rosetta stone (a prime specimen in Hawass' return campaign), might disagree...

Buried Treasure [Forbes.com - 7 hours ago]

...Although he finally began to acknowledge Saddam-era damage, his material was largely the same. A Boston Globe story began with the words, "Iraq's U S -led invaders inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops, and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archeological sites." In the meantime, I encountered Chaplain Antonio Marrero, who had important evidence...

Babylon Revisited [Forbes.com - 11/20/2009]

...the heart of the US capital, in a celebration of the spirituality and diversity of the arts of the Islamic world stretching from Morocco to Iran. "It is not a very large collection, not like the one in the BritishBritish Museum for example, but in terms of quality it is one of the best in the world" Massumeh Farhad, chief of Islamic art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, told IslamOnline.net...

Washington Showcases Islamic Arts [Islam Online - 11/17/2009]

"I think the BritishBritish Museum is concerned to make sure that it does remain in the West Midlands and available for people to see - if not use."

Gordon Brown backs campaign to keep Staffordshire Hoard in the Midlands [Birmingham Evening Mail - 11/11/2009]

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On This Day: Piltdown Man, Supposed “Missing Li... [findingDulcinea / Beyond The Headlines - 1 hour ago]
Buried Treasure [Forbes.com - 7 hours ago]
Biggest ever planning for LGBT History Month [Fyne Times - 16 hours ago]
Babylon Revisited [Forbes.com - 11/20/2009]
How Will Religion Evolve? [New York Times - 11/19/2009]
Low Pay Commission visit to Leicester [News Distribution Service - 11/18/2009]
A very youthful festival jury [Cinema Business - 11/18/2009]
Washington Showcases Islamic Arts [Islam Online - 11/17/2009]
Who Should Own the Rosetta Stone? [New York Times - 11/17/2009]
Prepare to celebrate LGBT History Month [Fyne Times - 11/16/2009]
Beer is good but tell that to the righteous [Morning Advertiser - 11/16/2009]
Beauty in the eye of the storm [Al-Ahram Weekly - 11/14/2009]
'Ancient' antiques seized by UK Border Agency [UK Border Agency - 11/13/2009]
Loudspeaker manufacturer Nexo provides audio fo... [AV Interactive - 11/13/2009]
Simon Hughes bags Event 100 Club top spot: list... [Event Magazine - 11/12/2009]
Lyris, Inc. Reports First Quarter Results; Comp... [Forbes.com - 11/12/2009]
Lyris, Inc. Reports First Quarter Results; Comp... [Business Wire via MSN Money - 11/12/2009]
Iran says U.K. to loan 2,500-year-old cylinder ... [Iran Focus - 11/12/2009]
Wednesday, November 11 [Archaeology Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Social Sciences [Library Journal - 11/11/2009]
Gordon Brown backs campaign to keep Staffordshi... [Birmingham Evening Mail - 11/11/2009]
Royal Diary of Engagements, 11th November 2009 [Government News Network - 11/11/2009]
The trade in preserved Maori heads [stuff.co.nz - 11/11/2009]
Lyris Provides Insight on How to Increase Onlin... [Earthtimes.org - 11/11/2009]
WCM and DAM in Denmark - J. Boye conference wra... [CMS Watch - 11/11/2009]
Nexo reinforces Moctezuma exhibition [LSI Online - 11/11/2009]
The quest to regain Egypt's antiquities [BBC - 11/11/2009]
Brisbane Waters College students’ historic Gree... [Gosford Express-Advocate - 11/10/2009]
Japanese manga comes to London's British Museum [Reuters - 11/09/2009]
Clean Politics: Race and Class, Imperialism and... [Japan Focus - 11/09/2009]

Blogs

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Who Should Own the Rosetta Stone? [TierneyLab - 11/16/2009] Should the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt? Should the export of a nation's "cultural property" be banned? Should there be laws giving national ...
Myths and Moctezuma \| José Juan López... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/16/2009] By rebranding the Aztec ruler, modern Mexico is now reclaiming its links to the indigenous pastAs Gordon Brown and the Sun both found to their cost recently, spelling ...
This treasure stirs the West Midlands' Anglo-Sa... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/09/2009] The Staffordshire hoard has brought history to life in modern-day Mercia – and it is here that the collection has to returnFrom the Lindisfarne gospels to the Lewis ...
Oxford's extraordinary old treasure chest revel... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/05/2009] The Ashmolean's curators have been truly bold. Old favourites gain new depth as chronology gives way to svelte modernismIn 1634 a young man home on leave from the ...
Museums: Past, present and future [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 10/30/2009] The Alfred Jewel will get a splendid new setting next week. The Anglo-Saxon crystal – with its majestic inscription "Aelfred Mec Heht Gewyrcan" (or Alfred ordered ...

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