Rome Seeks Sponsors To Repair Colosseum

The Colosseum in Rome, Italy, needs urgent repairs to a cost of around $8 million, to prevent the collapse of its facade. Rome is seeking international sponsors to help fund the repairs. According to Francesco Giro, undersecretary for culture and heritage in Rome, pieces are...

LADY DAI, World's Best Preserved Mummy

Who would have thought the world's best preserved mummy is not from Egypt or from the Aztecs BUT from China? Known as Lady Dai, this Western Han Dynasty's noblewomen was buried in style. She was buried in the innermost of four nested lacquer coffins with a vertitable wealth...

DNA tests to study mummy fetuses in King Tut tomb

"Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority said Wednesday. The two tiny female fetuses, between...

Rare & important Chinese Sui Dynasty stele to be sold at auction

"An important Chinese Sui Dynasty brown limestone triad stele with calligraphic inscription dated 613 A.D. to be sold at auction at Dallas Auction Gallery on June 18 - Mandarin speaking Asian arts expert on staff.- High resolution images of stele and documentation available...

George Romero breathes new life into 'Living Dead'

"George A. Romero sounds slightly chagrined. After all, when he made "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968, he didn't intend to create a zombie dynasty."

Bhutto a victim of South Asia`s cursed dynasties

"It was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who founded Pakistan's troubled dynasty. He became the country's first popularly elected prime minister but was toppled by the army in 1977 and later hanged. Both his sons died in mysterious circumstances. His daughter Benazir, a former prime...

Bumper stickers for the American plutocracy

"I find the trend toward dynasty style presidential politics in America pretty disturbing..."