Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures
How do you tell when, where and how a Picasso or a Matisse sculpture was cast? Could bronze sculptures have their very own DNA?
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2009
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2000-year-old statue of an athlete sheds light on corrosion, other modern challenges
The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently store nuclear ...
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2009
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United States returns 'Earth Monster' Olmec sculpture to Mexico
Mexico announced Friday that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States.
Archaeology
May 20, 2023
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Koons on the Moon—sculptures to be placed on lunar surface
American pop artist Jeff Koons is to send sculptures to the Moon later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery said Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2022
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Italian Renaissance: Belief in touch as salvation was stronger than fear of contagion
In 1399, a crowd gathered in the Tuscan city of Pisa, even though people understood that a plague ravaging the area was contagious. Devotees traveled from town to town and carried a crucifix—a sculpture of Jesus on the ...
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2021
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Archaeologist finds red and yellow paint on antonine wall
University of Glasgow archaeologist using cutting edge technology on remnants of the Antonine Wall has shown parts of it were painted in bright colours.
Archaeology
Apr 20, 2018
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Celebrity fossil reveals all for science
With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science's most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod ...
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2017
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France returns head of Hindu statue taken 130 years ago
The head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century was returned by France and reattached to its body Thursday for display at a museum, more than 130 years after it was spirited away.
Archaeology
Jan 21, 2016
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German scientists eye Afghan Buddha reconstruction
German scientists said Friday they believed it possible to reconstruct one of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas dynamited by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, prompting worldwide condemnation.
Archaeology
Feb 25, 2011
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Life-sized sculptures of dromedaries found in Saudi Arabia
At a remarkable site in northwest Saudi Arabia, a CNRS archaeologist and colleagues from the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) have discovered camelid sculptures unlike any others in the region. They ...
Archaeology
Feb 13, 2018
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