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week's edition include:
** Missing Pre-Incan Artefacts Found
A treasure-filled chamber containing hundreds of museum-quality artefacts -
including missing 4,000-year-old gold pieces from Peru's glittering
pre-Incan past - has been found in Spain
** Teeth clue to climate change
The teeth, held in the 145-year-old Queensland Museum collection, have
provided a South Australian researcher with a nifty way of finding out how
much or how little rain fell and how hot or cold it was in Australia in
years gone by
** Visitors slam prices of Tutankhamen souvenirs
People who paid up to £20 each to see the collection of ancient Egyptian
treasures on show at the O2 said they were shocked and disgusted by the
price of the items in the gift shop, most of which were mass-produced in
China
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** Rare glimpse of Arabia's legend
The film's release coincides with the opening of Lawrence and the Light
Brigade at the War Memorial, an exhibition charting the unique and often
uneasy relationship between Allied armies and the Arab forces that destroyed
the Ottoman Empire
** Turner winner hard for critics to bear
British artist Mark Wallinger today won the Turner Prize, one of the art
world's most controversial awards, for a film of him parading round a Berlin
gallery at night dressed as a bear
** Caesar's Superglue
Archaeologists in Germany say they have found a 2000-year-old glue that
Roman warriors used to repair helmets, shields and other accessories of
battle
** Historic puffer returns to canal
Steam puffers played an important part in the industrial heyday of the
canals and had a vital role during both World Wars, acting as fleet tenders
for the Navy and delivering goods to remote communities around the country
** World's oldest Rolls-Royce most expensive ever
One hundred and three years after it was first driven from a small factory
in Manchester it became the most valuable Rolls-Royce ever bought
** First Pearl Harbour attack pictures donated to Museum of Flight
Memorabilia from Port Angeles resident Lee Embree, who snapped the first
known photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on Dec. 7, 1941,
will be on permanent display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle
** New Yorkers Experience Medieval Europe in Museum Exhibit
The entire collection comprises around 5,000 works of art dating back as far
as 800 A.D, but focusing primarily on the 12th through 15th centuries
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** Fraud Trial Features Famous Firearms
Federal authorities say Frazier grossly overpaid for the weapons, thanks to
an alleged scam hatched by the man he entrusted to find the famous firearms
and run the museum
** Police find evidence in medal search
A detailed sweep of the Waiouru Army Museum has located a number of objects
police believe could be linked with the theft of 100 military medals worth
millions of dollars
** Irreplaceable Items Missing from Dallas Museum
Historical photographs and documents from the earliest days of the Texas
Republic and the history of Dallas have been stolen from Fair Park
** Stray cats guard priceless art
Authorities in Russia are employing some unusual measures to help protect
the priceless art in one of the world's most famous museums
** Newly unveiled Caravaggio put on display in Italy
A recently discovered version of Caravaggio's painting Cardsharps will be
put on display in Sicily for the first time next month along with 13 other
works by the Italian master
** Auschwitz museum won't receive large US donation
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp museum will not receive a US$750,000
donation from an American charity group because of delays in a project
caused by disagreements between the museum and city authorities
** Son charged with plundering Astor's estate
Astor gave US$200 million to New York institutions during her lifetime,
living by the motto: "Money is like manure, it should be spread around."
** Fabergé Museum in the Works
Alexander III appointed Fabergé official Court Supplier after he crafted an
exquisite bejewelled Easter egg known as the Hen Egg, which the Tsar
presented to his wife Maria Feodorovna in 1885; the tradition continued
every year
** War museum displays 007 memorabilia
Britain's prestigious Imperial War Museum will soon be displaying Halle
Berry's bikini from Die Another Day and Daniel Craig's bloody shirt from
last year's Casino Royale
** 16th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium
Quebec, Canada, September 29 - October 4, 2008
** The Met's European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries
The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and
Sculpture will open to the public on December 4
** National Museum opens Papunya exhibition
During the 1970s and early 1980s artists at the Northern Territory community
of Papunya created a body of work which transformed understandings of
Aboriginal art
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