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Weaves together a riveting story of ancient American cultures. the author's careful research is enhanced by his personal anecdotes.
Author : John Heinerman
Publisher : Cedar Fort
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555175191
Weaves together a riveting story of ancient American cultures. the author's careful research is enhanced by his personal anecdotes.
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Publisher : Ned Danouma
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
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Author : Fredrik Talmage Hiebert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781426202957
As war raged across the jagged Afghan countryside, the staff of the Afghan National Museum spirited away, piece by piece, to hiding places all over the Kabul region, each time risking their lives, sworn to silence, it was a secret they kept until the fall of the Taliban--almost thirty years of deadly danger, courage, and fierce honor.
Author : Nancy Moses
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 075912194X
“A riveting look at the backstory of what’s in the display cases at your local museum. The author profiles seven historic objects with checkered pasts.” —Library Journal There are many books about museum heists, Holocaust artwork, insider theft, trafficking in antiquities, and stolen Native American objects. Now, there’s finally a book for the general public that covers the entire terrain. Stolen, Smuggled, Sold features seven vivid and true stories in which the reader joins the author as she uncovers a cultural treasure and follows its often-convoluted trail. Along the way author and reader encounter a cast of fascinating characters from the underbelly of the cultural world: unscrupulous grave robbers, sinister middlemen, ruthless art dealers, venal Nazis, canny lawyers, valiant academics, unstoppable investigative reporters, unwitting curators, and dedicated government officials. Stories include Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer 1, the typset manuscript for Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, a ceremonial Ghost Dance shirt from the massacre at Wounded Knee, the theft of 4,800 historical audio discs by a top official at the National Archives, a missing original copy of The Bill of Rights, the mummy of Ramses I, and an ancient treasure from Iraq. While each story is fascinating in and of itself, together they address one of the hottest issues in the museum world: how to deal with the millions of items that have breaks in the chain of ownership, suspicious ownership records, or no provenance at all. The issue of ownership touches on professional practices, international protocols, and national laws. It’s a financial issue since the illicit trade in antiquities and cultural items generates as much as $4 billion to $8 billion a year.
Author : Zahi Hawass
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789774247781
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the greatest repository of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the world, receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. But many of its treasures, long kept in basement storerooms or in magazines at archaeological sites around the country, or recently discovered at ongoing excavations, have never been seen by the general public. To celebrate the centenary of the Museum, many of these unknown pieces of exquisite beauty or great historical importance--and often both--have been brought out of the darkness to form a unique exhibition in a very appropriate setting: a converted section of the great basement storerooms of the Museum. With some 250 artifacts from the earliest beginnings of pharaonic culture to its latest flowerings, the exhibition spans the whole of ancient Egyptian history, and the one hundred masterpieces beautifully photographed for this volume represent the whole range of the exhibition: the Predynastic Period, the Old Kingdom, the First Intermediate Period, the Middle Kingdom, the Second Intermediate Period, the New Kingdom, the Third Intermediate Period, and the Late Period. This handsome book will serve as a prized memento for visitors to the exhibition and as a window onto it for Egyptophiles everywhere.
Author : Barry Fell
Publisher :
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780671679743
Druids in Vermont? Phoenicians in Iowa? These are just a few of the interesting bits of information contained in this volume of American pre-history. This groundbreaking work shatters many of the myths of America centuries ago.
Author : Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761478775
Examine the ancient world of Egypt through expertly designed maps and site drawings, bringing history to life.
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834383
Do Indians living today know the location of the supposededly cursed Lost Gold of Devil's Sink? Did Sir Francis Drake bury millions of dollars'worth of ancient Incan treasures? Has anyone found the box of gold coins buried by a reputed giant in the Washington rain forest? Is there a noble family's fortune buried near an old log cabin in the Cascades?
Author : Frank Joseph
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1564148424
In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere. Here is a collection of the most controversial articles selected from seventy issues of the infamous Ancient American magazine. They range from the discovery of Roman relics in Arizona and California's Chinese treasure, to Viking rune-stones in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the mysterious religions of ancient Americans.
Author : Jeanette Greenfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521477468
New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.