Mizoram govt to organise Zo fest in 10 states, US, Bangladesh
The Mizoram government will be organising Zo Kutpui (festival) in at least 10 states across India and countries such as US, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The first edition of the festival will start on January 9 in Vanghmun in Tripura and will be held over three days.
The festival will then move to other states which have significant Mizo population, he added.
The move is an attempt to unify and strengthen the brotherhood among various Mizo tribes living in different parts of the world.
Chief Minister Zoramthanga would grace the event at Vanghmun, while Tourism Minister Robert Romawia Royte would be the chief host of the festival.
Dec 14, 2019
Over 1,000 Relics Recovered from Syrian Museum
More than 1,000 ancient relics and mosaics were saved from Islamic State group militants when staff at the museum of the Syrian city of Raqqa managed to hide them underground and in storehouses. Hundreds of other pieces that were hidden in Raqqa's branch of the central bank were discovered and stolen by militants.
Dec 06, 2019
Penn Museum Hands over Ancient Clay Tablets to Iraqi Embassy
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum delivered the fragments of 387 clay tablets to Iraq's embassy in Washington D.C. in the start of a repatriation process. The museum's researchers determined that the tablets, which were excavated nearly a century ago in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, were used to document economic transactions—similar to modern day receipts.
The tablets were retrieved between 1922 and 1934 during excavations jointly sponsored by the Penn Museum and the British Museum. Roughly 7,500 tablets and fragments were brought to Philadelphia under a loan agreement with the Iraqi government stating that they would be researched at the university museum and then returned.