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New York's Met museum sheds new light on African art collection
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» NEW YORK - From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present.
The new king: Charles III in dates
AFP, Published on 09/09/2022
» LONDON: Charles III is the longest-serving heir-apparent in British history.
Ancient skeleton reveals amputation surgery 31,000 years ago
AFP, Published on 08/09/2022
» TOKYO: A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said Wednesday.
400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast
AFP, Published on 04/08/2022
» QUITO: Inside an old oak barrel, Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier Carvajal found the fungus of fortune: a 400-year-old yeast specimen that he has since managed to resurrect and use to reproduce what is believed to be Latin America's oldest beer.
United States returns pillaged skull, golden objects to France
AFP, Published on 04/03/2022
» WASHINGTON: The United States has returned a set of illegally obtained artifacts, including a skull from the Parisian catacombs and golden ingots from an Atlantic shipwreck, to their rightful owner -- the French state.
Climate change threatens Afghanistan's crumbling heritage
AFP, Published on 09/01/2020
» BAMIYAN, Afghanistan: After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat - climate change.
Museum explores spooky science behind 'Frankenstein', 'The Mummy'
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» LOS ANGELES - What is the spookiest thing about "Frankenstein," "The Mummy" and "Dracula"? The hideous monster? The ancient curse? The sharp fangs?
Scientists unveil appearance of ancient human relative
AFP, Published on 20/09/2019
» JERUSALEM: We know what Neanderthals looked like. Now, thanks to ancient DNA, Israeli scientists have unveiled the appearance of another of our ancient relatives.
Egypt unveils ancient tomb and sarcophagi in Luxor
AFP, Published on 25/11/2018
» LUXOR (EGYPT) - Egypt on Saturday unveiled an ancient tomb, sarcophagi and funerary artifacts discovered in the Theban necropolis of Al-Assasif in the southern city of Luxor.
Brazil's National Museum, Latin America's largest
AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's National Museum, ravaged Sunday by a massive fire, is Latin America's largest natural history and anthropology museum, with more than 20 million artefacts and 530,000 titles.