Lost Egyptian Artefact Found in Aberdeen Cigar Box
A long-lost Egyptian artefact has been found in a cigar box in Aberdeen - and it is hoped it could shed new light on the Great Pyramid.
The chance discovery was made by a member of staff at the University of Aberdeen during a collection review.
The small fragment of 5,000-year-old wood - which is now in several pieces - is said to be hugely significant.
The engineer Waynman Dixon originally discovered it among items inside the pyramid's Queens Chamber in 1872.
The piece of cedar - which it is believed may have been used during the pyramid's construction - was donated to the university in 1946 but then could not be located.
Curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany found it while conducting a review of items housed in the university's Asia collection.
Dec 15, 2020
Philip Tinari Appointed Curator of Inaugural Ad-Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia
Philip Tinari, the director and chief executive of Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, has been named curator of the inaugural Ad-Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia. The biennial, scheduled to take place next year, is billed as the largest contemporary art exhibition ever held in the Kingdom.
The Saudi Arabian government announced plans to launch the new contemporary art biennial at the historic Ad-Diriyah city located on the outskirts of Riyadh earlier this year. The event was initiated by the Ministry of Culture and is organised by the newly formed Thunaiyat Ad-Diriyah Foundation which is chaired by the Culture Minister, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud. Another new initiative, the Islamic biennale, is planned for 2022 (the biennials will run alternate years).
Dec 08, 2020
'Creativity against Covid': Artists from over 100 Countries Create World Record
Chhapai, a Chandigarh-based startup along with International Art and Imagination Forum (IAIF) created a world record by bringing together 2,800 artists from over 100 countries at an event -- World's Largest Online Creativity Event.
Dec 07, 2020
Rio Museum Recovers Afro-Brazilian Art Works Confiscated more than a Century Ago
After almost three years of negotiations, an art collection of more than 500 pieces connected to Afro-Brazilian religions and confiscated between the years 1889 and 1945 by police forces have been returned to the Museu da Republica in Rio de Janeiro.
The art objects were seized in Candomblé and Umbanda terreiros (places of worship) during the country's First Republic and Vargas Era, and were stored in police headquarters for decades. At that time, the Brazil's penal code prohibited the practice of Afro-Brazilian culture and religions, vilifying such beliefs as shamanism and black magic.
Indian-American Run NGO Launches Virtual Art Gallery on Disability
A US-based global NGO run by an Indian-American has launched a virtual art gallery on the theme of disability that aims at colouring the world with the inclusion of specially-abled people through the creative expression of artwork.
The launch of the virtual art gallery by Voice of Specially Abled People (VOSAP) follows the successful VOSAP Art From Heart Contest, which was participated by more than 4,200 artists from 53 countries.
An international panel of eight judges declared 50 winners from 24 countries using the online platform of VOSAP. This is the first international online art contest on the theme of disability with this huge response.
VOSAP said this unique initiative to spread awareness on skills, a talent of specially-abled people by virtue of powerful tool of visual art and using technology is now taken to the next level with the launch of virtual VOSAP Art Gallery of selected 250 artwork of 250 artists.
Dec 04, 2020
Amazon Rainforest Rock Art Depicts Giant Ice Age Creatures
According to researchers, rock art found in the Amazon rainforest carries images of the area's earliest inhabitants living alongside giant Ice Age creatures.
The paintings are estimated to have been made between 11,800 and 12,600 years ago, towards the end of the last Ice Age.
The thousands of paintings were found on three rock shelters on the northern edge of the Colombian Amazon.
The excavations took place in 2017 and 2018, but the study is only now being released.
The paintings include depictions of what appear to be now-extinct animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, and giant sloths and Ice Age horses.
There are also paintings of geometric shapes, human figures, handprints and hunting scenes, as well as animals like snakes and birds.
Researchers say that the red paintings, made using pigments extracted from scraped ochre, make up one of the largest collections of rock art ever found in South America.
Norway Excavates a Viking Long ship Fit for a King
Pyramids, castles, palaces: symbols of power and status have taken many forms down the ages, and for the Vikings what really counted was the longship.
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo. It is the first such excavation in Norway for about a century.
Most of the ocean-going ship has rotted away over the centuries, but archaeologist Dr. Knut Paasche believes the layout of the iron nails will still enable a replica to be built eventually.
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) revealed it to be about 19m (62ft) long and 5m (16ft) wide - putting it on a par with the well-preserved Oseberg and Gokstad Viking ships on display in Oslo.
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