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...Heritage Site in 1986. Of course, it's also a mecca for New-Age seekers, who see it as a center of mystical energy. Not surprisingly, then, Stonehenge draws throngs of visitors - 875,000 last year alone - although they are often as shocked as they are awed by the ancient installation...
ACQUISITIONS AT HUAM At HUAM, the issue of repatriation claims has been on the mind of Susanne Ebbinghaus, the curator of ancient art. When asked whether any government had made claims to repatriate their antiquities under the UNESCO agreement or otherwise, Ebbinghaus replies, "That is the question I wouldn’t like to talk about...If there was any major claim, you would have heard about...
...these countries should not necessarily have sole claims on the pieces merely because they came from within the physical boundaries of their nation. "It is a stretch of the imagination to link modern Egypt to ancient Egypt, modern Greece to ancient Greece, modern Rome to ancient Rome, communist China to ancient China," Cuno told The Boston Globe...
...that makes people deceive their loved ones. The movie itself is a deception, however; marriage, as any gender studies concentrator could tell you, is a contract that binds together people’s lives in more than one way. Sachs, an award-winning director, flattens the complexity of this ancient establishment into a humorless discussion on the possibility of true love...
...OPEC members are also haunted by the organization's misstep in 1998, when they voted to boost production quotas shortly before the Asian economic crisis hit. That sent oil crashing to $10 a barrel. Such prices may now seem like ancient history, but as Cheney flies out to the Middle East, he'll be visiting a region where ancient history can seem very fresh indeed...