{"id":397603,"date":"2025-10-24T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=397603"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:45:23","slug":"sao-paulo-hosts-talk-on-louvres-syrian-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/sao-paulo-hosts-talk-on-louvres-syrian-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Paulo hosts talk on Louvre\u2019s Syrian collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Researcher and professor Ayman Esmandar will give the lecture \u201cSyria at the Louvre Museum,\u201d located in Paris, France. The event will take place on Saturday (25) at the Esporte Clube S\u00edrio in S\u00e3o Paulo. He will focus the presentation on the museum\u2019s collection of ancient Middle Eastern artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe lecture is a summary of my visit to the Louvre Museum in Paris, focusing on the Department of Antiquities, \u2018The Cradle of Humanity.\u2019 This section houses thousands of Middle Eastern artifacts, especially from Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The highlight will be Syrian artifacts from three ancient kingdoms: the Kingdom of Mari (3<sup>rd<\/sup> millennium BCE), the Kingdom of Ugarit (2<sup>nd<\/sup> millennium BCE), and the Kingdom of Palmyra (1<sup>st<\/sup>\u20133<sup>rd<\/sup> centuries CE),\u201d Esmandar was quoted as saying in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of the Louvre itself, which welcomed 8.7 million visitors last year, will also be covered in the lecture. Last Sunday (19), jewels were stolen from one of the museum\u2019s galleries. During their escape, the thieves lost one of the eight pieces, which was damaged. The other items had not been recovered as of Friday (24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quick facts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lecture: \u201cSyria at the Louvre Museum\u201d<br>Date: October 25, 4:00 PM<br>Location: Esporte Clube S\u00edrio, Avenida Indian\u00f3polis, 1,192, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<br><strong>More information<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirio.org.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sirio.org.br<\/a> | (+55 11) 2189-5000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/syrian-builds-artistic-career-brazil\/\">A Syrian builds an artistic career in Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-397600\">\u00a9Thibaud Moritz\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher to share insights from a visit to one of the world\u2019s most visited museums and present its Middle Eastern collection, focusing on Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":397600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[48455,54768,54767,6814,54766],"class_list":{"0":"post-397603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-egypt-2","9":"tag-louvre-museum","10":"tag-mesopotamia-2","11":"tag-paris-en","12":"tag-robbery"},"wps_subtitle":"Researcher to share insights from a visit to one of the world\u2019s most visited museums and present its Middle Eastern collection, focusing on Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}