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week's edition include:
** Looted Iraqi artefacts 'returned'
US customs agents working in Iraq say they have recovered thousands of items
looted from the national museum in Baghdad following the fall of Saddam
Hussein.
** Secrets of a Stone Age Rambo
Scientists have discovered the truth about Otzi the Iceman: that he was the
Stone Age equivalent of a hi-tech trooper kitted with complex weapons and
survival gear.
** Baghdad Museum Lost 'Its Arms and Legs'
" Doors were broken down and "every single scrap of paper, every negative,
every computer disc, every file had been pulled off the shelves (and) ripped
up."
** Smithsonian Museums Enhance Security
The addition of walk-through metal detectors was completed in the past two
weeks
** Russia's Hermitage Learns Western Ways to Survive
He saw the collection nearly ruined when local authorities switched off the
heating in the economic turmoil spawned by the collapse of communist rule
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** Ashcroft: Museums in Iraq Looted by Pros
Ashcroft spoke at an Interpol conference aimed at creating a database
listing pieces of art and historical objects stolen in the aftermath of the
war.
** No takers for giant Nazi holiday hotel
Stretching along three miles of one of Germany's best beaches lies the
biggest hotel the world never saw - a forbidding hulk of 10,000 rooms built
by Adolf Hitler as a holiday camp to ready the masses for war
** American Museums In Financial Crisis
The few institutions that have used their collections as collateral to
generate liquidity, like the Milwaukee Art Museum, have run into trouble
** 'Mummy's organ' removed from jar
Archaeologists at Birmingham University retrieved tough, leathery material,
which looked like dried meat, from the container.
** An old barn finally gives up its terrible secrets
For years, the slave jail, or holding pen, was encased and largely concealed
within the tobacco barn, a later addition that screened it from the elements
and ensured its survival
** Fake artefacts for sale on a side street
A former Iraqi army captain approached the Guardian offering what he claimed
was looted material from the Iraqi National Museum
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** Marlene Dietrich focus of show at Paris fashion museum
A Paris fashion museum is to mount a show devoted to Marlene Dietrich, the
first time in France a major exhibition is to focus on the film icon who
lived out her final years in the French capital
** Powhatan's Tribal Village Found
Researchers said Tuesday that thousands of Indian and European artefacts
found, along with historical descriptions, suggest the farm was the site of
Werowocomoco
** Manhattan art dealer arrested for stolen Picasso
A Manhattan art dealer was arrested in Brazil yesterday for allegedly
selling a stolen Picasso painting for US$4.5 million
** Carroll's portraits join collection in Wales
Lewis Carroll is regarded as a pioneering photographer as well as the
creator of one of the most famous children's books ever written
** Medical lot breaks the auction mould
Lot 140 was grown from spores of Sir Alexander Fleming's original penicillin
mould, which paved the way for the world's first antibiotics
** Indian museum designs whispering room for lovers
A museum in India has introduced a whispering room for lovers to exchange
sweet nothings
** Museum director to step down
The director of the Natural History Museum is stepping down after 16 years
to become a warden at Oxford University
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