Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will this rock art collection be taken out of storage
for South Africans to see? This is the final part in a series on South African rock art
Ever since the city’s dramatic reunification in late 1989, Berlin has enjoyed a boom in tourism, with figures surging upwards every year. More than 17-million people visited Berlin in 2007 — eight million more than in the first year after the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989 — proving the old-new German capital is now one of Europe’s most magnetic and exciting destinations.
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/ 11 October 2007
French archaeologists say they have excavated an 11 000-year-old wall painting in red, black and white in northern Syria that they describe as the oldest in the world, although it resembles a modern work. The two-square-metre painting was found below ground at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates.