Cambodia's Khmer past: an exhibition opening at the National Gallery highlights the cultural legacy of a war-torn country

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Khmer sculpture is featured at an exhibition entitled 'Millennium of Glory: Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia.' The exhibition of over 100 bronze and sandstone works from the seventh to sixteenth centuries AD is at the Grand Palais, Paris, France, until May 26, 1997, after which it moves to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 29-Sept 28; then to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Osaka Municipal Art Museum in Japan. There is some concern that the exhibition could encourage additional looting of sites in Cambodia, yet interest in the exhibition could also promote repatriation of plundered items.

Cambodia, Khmers

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Cyprus in context: Harvard's Semitic Museum unveils its Cesnola collection

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Harvard University's Semitic Museum has acquired approximately 1300 items from the Cesnola collection of artifacts from Cyprus, which are being shown in an exhibition entitled 'Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum' that opened in April 1997. The collection was assembled by Luigi Palma di Cesnola in the 19th century and includes a total of some 16,000 items, most of which are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York. The Semitic Museum has shown how to make good use of existing collections to fulfill its mission.

Cyprus, Collections and collecting, Harvard University. Semitic Museum

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Wonders of Ur: artifacts from Sir Leonard Woolley's landmark excavations make the rounds of U.S. museums

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Details of a traveling exhibition of artifacts from Sir Leonard Woolley's 1926-1927 excavations in ancient Ur in Iraq is presented.

Exhibitions, Art, Ancient, Ancient art, Ur (Ancient city)

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