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week's edition include:
** 400-year-old murder mystery of astronomer 'to be solved'
A tale of murderous intrigue involving a king, a queen and a brilliant
scientist could finally come to a close after 400 years as researchers are
preparing to exhume the remains of the celebrated Danish astronomer Tycho
Brahe following new leads that he was poisoned by a contract killer in 1601
** N.Y. museums head to trial in rights over Picassos
Two major New York museums have lost a bid to throw out claims by a Jewish
scholar that he is the owner of two Picasso paintings and the case will head
to trial next week
** Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Urgent Need of Renovation
The main goals of conservation works will be determined by the Museum's
conservation department under close supervision of the International
Auschwitz Council
** Greece to give Iraq money, know-how for museums
Greece has long campaigned to recover ancient treasures taken from its own
archaeological sites, including the Pantheon marbles held in the British
Museum
** Museum backers seek halt to selloff
Donors and long-time supporters of the Rose Art Museum are exploring whether
they can block Brandeis University's stunning decision to close the museum
and sell an art collection that had been valued at $350 million
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** Looking deep into the past to see what might lie ahead
The curator of vertebrate palaeontology at Seattle's Burke Museum
specializes in the Permian and Triassic periods, to study everything from
extinction and recovery to global warming
** Smithsonian Click-n-Drags Itself Forward
At this gathering - "Smithsonian 2.0," it was called - there was much talk
among the institution's handpicked staffers about the difficulties of moving
this battleship, ocean liner, glacier . . . pick your metaphor
** Polynesians originated in Taiwan 5,200 years ago, claims new study
The ancestors of today's Polynesians originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years
ago, spreading into the Philippines and eastward into the Pacific, according
to a study of the region's languages
** China tries to halt Yves Saint Laurent art sale
China is trying to block the sale in Paris of two 18th-century bronze animal
heads from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent, the late French couturier,
because they were looted from Beijing by a marauding Franco-British army
** U.S. museums pinched by recession cut hours, staff
American museums are feeling pinched by the financial crisis, with some
closing and others cutting staff and hours even as the public clamours for
the affordable entertainment that these institutions offer
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** Gold rush: The battle over sunken treasure
An editorial in Archaeology magazine charges that "the Discovery Channel is
cashing in on the business of systematically looting shipwrecks" in teaming
up with Odyssey
** Peru archaeologists inaugurate new museum at Sipan
The newest display of Peruvian archaeology opened on Thursday - just a few
feet from where the golden tomb of the Lord of Sipan, dubbed the
"Tutankhamen of the Americas," was discovered in 1987
** The fakes that are good enough for V&A
The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired five "medieval" miniatures worth
£20,000, despite knowing that they were created by a forger
** Noahs flood may have been much smaller than previously believed
In a new research, scientists have suggested that an ancient flood, similar
to the biblical Noahs flood, which was believed to have occurred 9,500 years
ago and drowned the shores of the Black Sea, was much smaller than
previously proposed by other researchers
** Three Fishes In One
Researchers believe they have solved the puzzle of three seemingly different
fish, one all males, one all females and one all juveniles
** Remembering 'the Little Bear Woman'
On Nov. 2, 1778, a 5-year-old girl is taken by Indians who attack her
Pennsylvania cabin on what is then the American frontier
** Picasso's lasting impressions
The boy started painting at the age of seven, knew he wanted to be a painter
by 11, and was admitted to the academy at 14
** Possible embezzlement at Tucson Museum of Art
The Tucson Police Department Fraud Unit and the Arizona Attorney General's
Office are investigating a case of possible embezzlement at the Tucson
Museum of Art
** Coffee is focus of new exhibit at Burke Museum
The beloved brew, which has been alternately praised and condemned as a
poison, a medicine, a magical elixir and more, is the second-most traded
commodity in the world - bested only by oil
** Famous fossil ignored in Seattle
Who loves Lucy? Far fewer than officials at the Pacific Science Centre hoped
when they booked the 3.2 million-year-old fossil remains of one of the
earliest known ancestors of the human race
** Leadership in History Awards
AASLH invites submissions to the 2009 Leadership in History Awards
** 8th Conference on Fossil Resources
Call for papers: A proceedings volume will be published by the Utah
Geological Survey for the meeting
** Brilliant Chinese Paintings and Calligraphies of Ming Dynasty in New
Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
Exhibition dates: January 23 - September 13, 2009
** Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours
An International Conference - April 1st - 4th 2009
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