A photograph of Professor Guoqing Chen of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing presenting hand painted calligraphy to Binghamton University President, Harvey Stenger on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 (Also present are John Meador, Dean of Binghamton University Libraries, ...
Citing concerns about fragment’s authenticity and its origin, the paper also criticized Harvard, a Vatican newspaper declared the so-called “Jesus wife” papyrus a fake. Nine days after early Christianity scholar Karen King announced the discovery of an ancient text suggesting ...
Old news: Andy Warhol, Time Capsule 232 (Photo courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum) By Jean Wainwright The synchronicity of Andy Warhol’s record saleroom prices with the rise of art as a celebrity culture often overshadows the reality of a ...
The terror of Saddam Hussein’s secret police has lived on long after his fall through their millions of reports, which are still dragged up by Iraqi politicians and the media, often with damaging results. But Saad Iskander, the head of ...
Just a publicity stunt? As iconic photo ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ turns 80, questions arise about its origin Unknown/© Bettmann/CORBIS Intrepid steel workers atop the RCA Building – now known as the GE Building – on Sept. 29, 1932. An archivist ...
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group’s bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents — a ...
JOHN HUDSON SEP 10, 2012 On Monday, the U.S. National Archives released 1,000 declassified documents pertaining to the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet Union. The Cliffs Notes version? America’s coverup of the infamous Katyn Massacre was more extensive ...
A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus’ Wife by Laurie Goodstein, the New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in ...
By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — In grainy black-and-white film, David Ben-Gurion, a founding father of modern Israel and its first prime minister, is reading out the new state’s Declaration of Independence for the first time in May 1948. There are crowds in the ...
The Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972. Members were later taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists and then killed. JERUSALEM — The instructions from the Israeli government were clear in the hours after Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes at the ...