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In archaeology news: A group in Kure, Japan is planning to salvage artifacts from the sunken Battleship Yamato. The ship, at 65,000 tons one of the largest of its class, sank in 1945. Via Asahi.com: Kazushige Todaka, chief of the Kure Maritime Museum, more commonly known as the Yamato Museum because it has a replica of the battleship [...] More commentary on the attempt by a team of Beijing-based lawyers to block the sale of two bronze statues looted from the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan). The group of 67 lawyers has filed suit in a French court in advance of the February 23rd auction of the items. The bronzes are part of a collection formerly owned [...] |
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