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CONTENTS: Sculpture, Architecture, and Painting considered individually. Outstanding works of art from Egypt to the present used to trace the evolution of new forms and methods. Little or no background in art is needed...
CONTENTS: Sculpture, Architecture, and Painting considered individually. Outstanding works of art from Egypt to the present used to trace the evolution of new forms and methods. Little or no background in art is needed...
...some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
...work at the National Museum, and his helpers will go back to school. The location of his find is no longer a secret; American collectors are already nosing around the camp site. And Ontario, oddly, has no antiquities law to protect archaeological diggings from looters. "Practically every ancient trace of man found in Ontario has gone across the border," says the archaeologist sadly. "[U.S. dealers] take artifacts back, claiming them at the border as souvenirs. Then they sell them at high prices . . . If this site is destroyed, I'm afraid I'll just quit the business altogether...
...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...