A rare collection of communion silver – with some pieces dating back over 500 years – has just been bought for the City of Birmingham, in England, with the help of a £27,000 grant from the ArtFund. The collection consists of a rare pre-Reformation silver parcel-gilt paten engraved with the Manus Dei [Read More]
Daily Archives: August 14, 2010
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David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the fate of antiquities in the Kuwait National Museum during the 1990 invasion by Iraq. Professor Donny George, the former Director-General of the National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq has released a statement through “Looting Matters” about his role after the invasion of Kuwait. This personal account sheds [Read More]