Loading...AsiaCultureAid teams, church leaders, and Israeli liaisons coordinate a rare cultural rescue amid combat claims against HamasWith minutes to spare and an airstrike pending, humanitarian workers evacuated thousands of archaeological artifacts from a Gaza City high-rise after nine hours of talks with the Israeli…By Isabel Harcourt2d ago
Loading...North AmericaCultureAn icon remembered across the aisle and across the artsRobert Redford died Tuesday at his home at Sundance in the Utah mountains, according to publicist Cindi Berger, and tributes immediately poured in from filmmakers, actors, and political…By Isabel Harcourt2d ago
Loading...North AmericaCultureA leading man who built an institution and broadened American soft powerRobert Redford, the quintessential American movie star who evolved into an Academy Award-winning director and the driving force behind the Sundance Institute, died Tuesday at 89. His publicist…By Isabel Harcourt2d ago
Loading...AsiaCulturePenn Museum archive reconnects a fractured community and underscores the stakes of safeguarding heritageNearly a century after archaeologists working in northern Iraq befriended and photographed their Yazidi neighbors, almost 300 of those images have been brought to light at the University…By Isabel Harcourt5d ago
Loading...AsiaCultureAt a Philadelphia archive, a forgotten trove becomes a lifeline for a shattered communityA century-old friendship between American archaeologists and Yazidi villagers in northern Iraq has yielded an unexpected restoration of memory. Nearly 300 black-and-white images, taken in the 1930s around…By Isabel Harcourt5d ago
Loading...South AmericaCultureSaint Carlo Acutis relic vanishes as parish pleads for its return and police probe theftA third-degree relic of Saint Carlo Acutis was stolen from the Santo Domingo de Guzmán parish in the Cardenal Quintero municipality of Mérida state, Venezuela, according to Adrián…By Charlotte Brennan5d ago
Loading...North AmericaCultureA quick checkup for your news diet, from politics to viral odditiesThe Associated Press has rolled out a weekend quiz that measures how closely readers follow the week in news. Curated around the mix that defines modern headlines, from…By Isabel Harcourt5d ago
