“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the Vatican ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as reconciliation for the Catholic ...
Completing a project to repatriate human remains held in the Vatican Museums' ethnological collection, the Vatican and the government of Peru signed an agreement Oct. 17 to return to Peru three ...
Pope Leo XIV meets with leaders of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and gives the conference 62 artifacts that will be returned to Indigenous communities in Canada. With the pope, from left ...
Pope Francis has decided to return three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon to Greece. Dating to the fifth century B.C.E., the sculpture fragments depict the head of a boy, a horse head and the ...
From ancient pharaohs to Renaissance masterpieces and priceless cultural treasures, these world-famous museums offer ...
Ethnos is the evocative title of the first general catalogue dedicated to the vast and complex Ethnological Collections of the Vatican Museums. The new text to be published by Edizioni Musei Vaticani ...
In January, the Vatican will be “unveiled” at the Mall of America. The Rev. Richard Kunst, a Duluth priest, is bringing his collection of papal artifacts down for a three-week exhibit. Vatican ...
The greatest museums in the world preserve more than just invaluable relics and artifacts, but also tell the story of humanity's past.
The Pio-Clementine museum -- The Chiaramonti museum and the Braccio Nuovo -- The Pinacoteca -- The Raphael rooms -- The Gregorian Egyptian museum -- The Gregorian Etruscan museum -- The Gregorian ...
A wampum belt, from what is now Quebec, symbolizing Indigenous people forming an alliance with French Catholic colonizers is seen in this 2008 file photo from the Vatican Museums' ethnological ...
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