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In 2007, the Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Museum was forced to return 40 artifacts, including a 5th-century BC statue of the goddess Aphrodite, which was looted from Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. [23]
The Getty Villa is an educational center and an art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [2] One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, United States, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust.The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, [2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles.
Notable for its 100-foot length, symbolic of the hundred-meter temples of this period in ancient Greece, the find was fully uncovered in 2023 and features exterior walls and an arch on the west side.
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Spanish-revival home of William S. Hart, contains original furnishings, western art, mementos of early Hollywood and Native American artifacts; operated by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum: Industry: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house
The 'Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History' project seeks to illustrate major Los Angeles-area Indigenous settlements. Tribal leaders and researchers have mapped the ancient 'lost suburbs' of Los ...
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the remains of what they believe are a 4,000-year-old temple and theater, shining a new light on the origins of complex religions in the region.