The Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology in Monaco is currently hosting The Nomads of Upper Asia, an exhibition featuring the culture of the extraordinary people who still inhabit a geographical area that includes parts of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and China. Since 2006, the Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology of Monaco, in conjunction with the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, has been excavating the ancient site of Tsatsyn Ereg. This exhibition allows the public to share in the archaeological investigations by examining facsimiles of the traditional deer stones, along with rock carvings, weapons and ornaments. The exhibition will run until 21 September 2012. Link: http://www.map-mc.com/ Faces & Voices explores the lives of people living in Egypt in the Roman and Late Antique period through the portraits and writings they left behind, now held in the collections of The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library. The show features ten remarkable mummy portraits and an amazing display of Greco-Roman papyri – most of which have never been seen before in public – as well as a series of works by influential Egyptian artist Fathi Hassan. The exhibition will run from July to November Link: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/
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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence has opened ten new spaces, dedicated to 16th-century painters, mainly from Tuscany, from Andrea del Sarto to Bronzino and Raffaello. There is also a gallery with Hellenistic sculptures. The statues that are exhibited include Boy with Thorn (Roman art), the Aphrodite (Hellenistic art), also known as Toilet of Venus, and the Torso, showing a centaur with its hands tied behind its back, also known as ‘Torso Gaddi’, the Farnese Hercules (Roman art, 2nd century A.D.). Other sculptures on show include the Citharist Apollo, Dionysus with panther, a Niobide and a Head of Arianne, coming from the archaeological museum in the Tuscan capital.
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