At a weekend news conference announcing legislation to provide federal support for historic African-American burial grounds, 4th District U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin shared a personal anecdote about the significance of the bill he is co-sponsoring with fellow Democratic Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina’s 12th District.
Seemingly pulled from the pages of an international thriller, Museum of the Bible and the University of Athens in Greece have collaborated to solve the mystery of a medieval manuscript missing since 1991.
In the world of film, questions of provenance are having a moment in both documentaries and fiction. In the 2015 film, “Woman in Gold,” Helen Mirren plays an octogenarian who finds proof that a famous painting by Gustav Klimt was the one that hung above her aunt and uncle’s fireplace when she was a child.
In the millennia before Europeans arrived in North America, the town now called Bridgeton, New Jersey was a hub for the Lenni-Lenape people who inhabited an area stretching from Delaware to Connecticut.
The Museum of the Bible is opening today (17 November) in a vast former warehouse near the National Mall in the US capital. Atop the brick hulk is a long glass structure resembling a Torah scroll, while the text of Genesis 1:1-31—the creation story—in Latin is carved on 40ft-high bronze gates framing the entrance.