Painted Statues Again

Reconstruction of the colors of the Marcus Caelius Cenotaph (Xanten)

News Update

• For those who hadn’t noticed that Pluto has been, well, Plutoed, you can find the resolution here.
• For those who hadn’t noticed that Italy won the football world cup in Germany, you can find a news report here.
• For those who hadn’t noticed that Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature, you can find it here.
• For those who hadn’t noticed that Mickey Spillane has died, you can find an obituary here.
• For those who hadn’t noticed that Israel invaded Lebanon, you can find an overview here.
• And for those who hadn’t noticed that archaeologists use UV-light to establish which colors the ancient statues had, you can find a news report here.

I always believed that in my list of common errors the one on painted sculpture was a bit unnecessary. But apparently, it wasn’t. At least one journalist hasn’t discovered we’re already living in 2010.