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In the United States, funerals often seem to be at war with death's decay. Rather than let our bodies decompose into the soil, we embalm and coat them in makeup, seal them in wood and metal caskets, lower them into waterproof vaults.
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Here in the United States, our cultural heritage is something we care about, but funding it is another story. In Italy, it's long been the case idea that the government mostly pays to maintain cultural heritage, but as the state continues to struggle financially, officials are turning more and more
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This spring has seen greater restrictions on the ivory trade in the United States, and while conservation groups and those concerned with the shocking depletion of the elephant and rhinoceros population are enthusiastic about the US Fish and Wildlife Service's stricter ivory rules, others see the se
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Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid governmental dysfunction and a lack of funds are commonplace these days. But tales of the Italians getting creative with their efforts have been springing up too, and a piece from NPR yesterday points to another example: a program called
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Some of the most historic sites of human history aren't even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA's 1969 to 1972 trips to the moon, and traveling somewhere out in the distance of the universe are interstellar objects like the Voyager probes. There are even closer
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Cecilia Gimenez's creative restoration of an 120-year-old ecce homo fresco by Elias Garcia Martinez in Spain may have become an international icon for its frizzy mane of hair and blurred face (even inspiring a Halloween costume), but it could all vanish in a matter of minutes.
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A Scottish Castle commissioned four Brazilian street artists to paint their walls and now they are fighting to have them stay that way.
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Art nerds of the world, rejoice! Flavin Judd, the son of famed minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, is answering questions about his father's work and its conservation.
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On February 2nd, a post published on now-Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass's blog categorically stated: “I would like the people of the world to know that today all of the Egyptian monuments are safe.” The post assures us that no major Egyptian archaeological sites have been seriously damaged besi