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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Who owns antiquity?  </title>
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A. SRIVATHSAN                                                                                        
The world of antiquities is a murky and complex one where ownership is a contested space. Many Indian sculptures (and pieces of architecture) of immense historical value are still languishing in Western museums. In this context, it was naïve to expect Gandhi’s memorabilia to be returned voluntarily. 
What do we make of it when a pair of old glasses, sandals and a small bowl is worth Rs.10...]]></description>
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         <title>Acropolis opens to public (ANA)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ATHENS NEWS AGENCY, 18/3/2009.
Culture Ministry's employees on Thursday cancelled their 24-hour strike and opened the archaelogical site of the Acropolis for visitors, in an act of&#160;good will after reassurances by Culture Minister Antonis Samaras for resolving the problem of paying contract staff working at the culture ministry through a bill to be tabled in Parliament within days.
&#160;&#160;&#160;A number of staff at the ministry, who had originally been taken on with temporary contracts...]]></description>
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         <title>The New Acropolis Museum: A dialogue with antiquity</title>
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By Nicolai Ouroussoff,&#160;
ATHENS: No sane architect, one can assume, would want to invite comparisons between his building and the Parthenon. So it comes as little surprise that the New Acropolis Museum, which stands at the foot of one of the great achievements of human history, is a quiet work, especially by the standards of its flamboyant Swiss-born architect, Bernard Tschumi.
But in mastering his ego, Tschumi pulled off an impressive accomplishment: a building that is both an...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>15 years without Melina Mercouri </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[March 6, 2009.
Fifteen years have been passed without Melina Mercouri. Melina died in 1994 at the Memorial Hospital of New York, at the age of 73, from lung cancer. When her body returned to her beloved country, she was buried at the First Cemetery of Athens, with honours equivalent to that of a Head of State. Thousands of Greeks attended the funeral, while a whole nation was mourning a great personality of cultural and political significance.&#160;

(Photo: "She always lives in our hearts"; a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Acropolis workers strike shuts down monument (AP)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ATHENS, GREECE (AP): Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis — one of Europe's most famous cultural sites — found themselves met at the gate by striking guards explaining why they had shut the place&#160;down.
The antiquities sites guards, who are temporary contract workers, are demanding permanent positions and the payment of wages they say are past due. Thursday was the first day of a strike the guards say will last three days, meaning Athens' signature tourist site will...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Eight Reasons: Why the Parthenon Sculptures must be returned to Greece</title>
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by Nicolas Mottas.
The date has been announced. On June 20th, the New Acropolis Museum of Athens will be inaugurated, opening its gates to the public. Crouching at the foot of the Acropolis rock, the brand new Museum is consisting the forefront of Greece's continual effort for the restoration of the Parthenon Marbles. The opening of the 130 million Euro ultra-modern building, which covers almost 14,000 square meters of exchibition space, dismantles the years-long argument that there isn't a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>China tries to halt Yves Saint Laurent art sale - Times Online</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Son and Father. The 'glorious' actions of the Eight Seven of Earl in China, quite similar to those of his father (Lord Elgin) in Greece.

by Charles Bremner in Paris and Jane Macartney in Beijing.
China is trying to block the sale in Paris of two 18th-century bronze animal heads from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent, the late French couturier, because they were looted from Beijing by a marauding Franco-British army. A team of Beijing lawyers is to lodge a suit with French courts to prevent...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Ownership of ancient treasures focus of talk</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Western museums are facing a fight for many centuries-old objects.
by Jessie-Lynn Kerr.
The battle over who owns ancient treasures will be the subject of a lecture by author and award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of North Florida's University Center. The event is sponsored by UNF and the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville.
Waxman will be the speaker in place of the previously scheduled Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, who...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>MPs Pushing Elgin's Marbles Back To Greece - Sky News</title>
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by Alastair Bruce.
Two MPs championing the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece this year, to mark the opening of a new museum at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, have sent letters out this week to all their fellow legislators recruiting Parliamentary support.
My interest in this is because the marbles were brought back to Britain from Athens by my Great Great Great Grandfather, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, at the start of the 19th century. He was passionate about antiquities and wanted...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>The New Acropolis Museum: A home fit for the Elgin Marbles?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The soon-to-open museum for the Acropolis sculptures looks fantastic. But will it convince the British Museum to send the Parthenon frieze home?
by Charlotte Higgins.


Last night the president, Dimitrios Pandermalis, and the architect, Bernard Tschumi, of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens were in London to present their plans for the building, which opens sometime in early spring. They gave a clear sense of this impressive-looking museum, which is built in the shadow of the Parthenon atop...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Website launched</title>
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	Tell your visitors why you have started a new presentation and how it benefits them. Mention your goals and project advantages. Try to briefly give your visitors reasons why they should return to your pages.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our new blog has been launched today. Stay focused on it and we will try to keep you informed. You can read new posts on this blog via the RSS feed.]]></description>
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