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Friday, October 10
October 10, 2008

Former Italian culture minister Francesco Rutelli has called for a Rome prosecutor to block an antiquities auction at Bonhams. One of the items slated for sale is an Apulian vase once owned by disgraced dealer Robin Symes. “Auction houses should be extremely careful about what they’re selling and be clear about their origins,” commented Graeme […]

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Thursday, October 9
October 9, 2008

Recent headlines proclaimed Stonehenge a healing center built in 2300 B.C., but a second excavation conducted by the Stonehenge Riverside Project claims that Stonehenge was mainly a burial site built in 3000 B.C.   “Stonehenge was always about death and ancestors and burial and not healing,” said Mike Pitts, one of the authors of the new study, […]

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