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week's edition include:
** Human Remains Found In Shallow Grave Near Museum
Police are combing the woods across from Fayetteville's Airborne and Special
Operations Museum, where human remains were found Wednesday
** Director quits museum post
Two years after becoming the first female director of the Wadsworth
Athenaeum in Hartford, Kate Sellers is resigning
** British Museum May Hand over Nazi-Looted Art
The British Museum said on Wednesday it may return four Old Masters'
drawings seized from a Jewish collector by the Nazis during World War II
** Lucretia Borgia got bad rap, experts say
Lucretia Borgia did not poison anyone and probably did not have an
incestuous affair with her father, who was the pope
** All change as museum shuts down
The savage retribution of the sea has been one of the themes of the Maritime
Museum since it opened on the seafront in 1967 - appropriately in a former
home for shipwrecked sailors
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** Two Chinese museums examine a priceless past
China's soil is not known for its high quality when it comes to agriculture,
but it is among the richest in the world as far as archaeology is concerned.
** Fungi shock as favourite CDs destroyed
Tropical fungi, Geotrichum, had first been identified 175 years ago and was
present in foodstuffs such as cereals, cheese, yeast and vegetables
** Marconi Family, Historians Oppose Sale of Inventor's Collection
Historians and the family oppose the sale on the grounds that it means
breaking up a unique resource for the public and researchers interested in
early radio technology
** Ancient lion goes to hospital
The skull of a marsupial lion has undergone CT scans at the hospital to help
researchers discover more about its characteristics
** Stolen artefact returned
The intriguing tale of a decade-long international art theft reached its
conclusion, when an ancient Greek water jug was returned to the University
of Melbourne. LISTEN TO THE AUDIO
** Dying species 'endangering' Earth
Unless the present trend was reversed, he said, the world could lose about
55% of its species over the next 50 to 100 years
** Treasures moved in preparation for war
Iraqi museum curators are busy packing away priceless antiquities of
Assyria, Sumeria and Babylon at archaeological sites and museums
** Peru Finds 200 Fishermen Sacrificed to Sea God
The Pacific Ocean had always been the fishermen's lifeblood - until the day
they knelt blindfolded before its blue waters and the knife pierced their
hearts
** NZ team unmasks King Tutankhamun
Historical accuracy rather than animation was needed when they were asked to
help generate a computer model of what the mysterious boy king - dead for
more than 3300 years - may have looked like behind the legendary gold death
mask
** Roman 'marbles' go on display
Wealthy ancient Romans were the first to adorn their homes and public
buildings with coloured marbles
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** U.K. Museum Mistakenly Sells Skull
Staff at the York Dungeon museum of horrors said Tuesday they are trying to
trace a visitor who was accidentally sold a human skull in the museum shop
** Medieval ship parts 'destroyed'
Marine archaeologists have confirmed they will not be able to recover key
parts of a unique 15th Century trading ship found in Newport
** Medieval skeletons found under queen's kitchen
Work to install a new pipe system at Queen Elizabeth II's palace in Scotland
turned into an archaeological dig when eight human skeletons were discovered
under the kitchen floor
** Heavy Metal
What those future generations won't see is the kind of craftsmanship that
went into the arms and armour currently on display at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
** Tests reveal 'buried treasure' in Saskatchewan
An archaeological crew outside St. Louis, Sask., has uncovered bison bones
from an 8,000-year-old hunting site
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