Ancient Treasures

Weighing Anchor for a round Britain cruise: cruising in the UK is booming; the perfect getaway is a treasure on our doorstep.
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 2683 words; ...peninsula and wild coastal landscapes. Also proven draws are ancient archaeological sites and the wildlife both on and off-shore...well worth the visit, and on the Orkney Islands you can see ancient Stone Age remains." While there has always been small-scale...

New Cleopatra Exhibition to Make World Premiere at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in Spring 2010.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1399 words; ...uncovered Cleopatra's royal palace and two ancient cities that had been lost beneath the...Mark Antony, which we believe was in an ancient temple near Alexandria," said Zahi...hidden tomb, and reveal secrets and treasures that have been lost for millennia. This...

Caught under a spell at the cabin
The Irish Times; 12/12/2009; 3009 words; ...or how an eccentric old Spaniard took to the road with his ancient horse and servant on a quest to discover God knows what. There...reading brought you over those mountains, to the high seas in Treasure Island(1883), to Paris during the French Revolution, to...

Christmas books for young and old ...
Belfast Telegraph; 12/12/2009; 617 words; ...that uses some very modern imagery to illustrate some very ancient truths. 9. The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore...especially for children and those tasked with reading to the little treasures. Fantastic illustration by Christian Birmingham, who sounds...

Thomas Hoving; directed Metropolitan Museum
The Boston Globe; 12/12/2009; 973 words; ...played a leading role in bringing the first tour of Egyptian treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun to America in the 1970s. At the...agreed to return it to Italy in exchange for loans of other ancient objects. In the 1980s, while editing Connoisseur magazine...