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The article informs about historians use advances in imaging and non-destructive testing have been developed map or manuscript, and astronomical imaging, have been adapted for applications to cultural heritage.

The article offers information on the panel who held by the Library was acquired by John Huston, the director of such classic films as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen" also an accomplished painter and collected a broad spectrum of art that inspired him, from works by Paul Klee.

The article informs that Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division has acquired 18th century carving of a Theravada Buddhist cosmography that originally came from Myanmar.

The article reports that Diego Rivera was alleged to be one of the most important Mexican artists of the 20th century in San Francisco, Mexico City, New York and Detroit helped transform the style of public art and brought new ideas from the Parisian avant garde to the Americas.

The article offers information on the 1507 World Map and a 1516 sea chart called the Carta Marina, which can be found at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. INSET: A SURVIVAL STORY.

The article profiles an artist and talented draftsperson Marie Tharp. It states during the 20th century, she became one of the most influential cartographers and radical oceanographers. It further states that she in partnership with Bruce Heezen created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.