Thursday, October 16, 2014

Warsaw upgrades exhibit of saved Sudanese art

A man points at a 9th century wall painting of Saint Anna in an enhanced exhibition of Christian-era paintings from Faras, Sudan, at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Polish archaeologists found and saved the paintings in the 1960s in a UNESCO action before they could be flooded by the New Aswan Dam reservoir. Some of the found paintings were brought to the National Museum in Warsaw, the others are in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw's National Museum has added state-of-the art multimedia and installed new settings to enhance Europe's only exhibition of Christian-era wall paintings saved by the Poles from flooding in Sudan in the 1960s.








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