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week's edition include:
** Stone Age mini-skirts and prehistoric women with a passion for fashion
A series of stone figurines wearing the prehistoric fashions were unearthed
at one of Europe's oldest known villages - a community that nestled between
rivers, mountains and forests in what is now southern Siberia
** Israeli museum recovers rare clock collection
A museum in Jerusalem has recovered a priceless collection of rare
timepieces stolen nearly 25 years ago, including one that belonged to
Marie-Antoinette
** Prints replace originals at Jakarta art exhibition
Much to the disappointment of visitors, the Jakarta Historical Museum is
keeping several original paintings in storage and displaying prints instead
** Digital technology brings 2,400-year-old Chinese bells to life
Using high-definition microphones, the Hubei Provincial Museum recorded the
sounds of the ancient set of bells from the Warring States Period (475-221
B.C.)
** Smashed vases go back on display
The restoration work has involved taping all the pieces together and then
binding them with a special adhesive before a final polish and coating of
enamel
** Church row evolves over fossil boy
Turkana Boy, considered the most complete early human fossil, is being
removed from his bomb-proof vault to take centre stage at an exhibition that
curators say will provide the most complete record of the evolution of Man
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** Winterthur exhibit looks at Americans' love affair with pets
In what may be a first for Winterthur, the du Pont family country home,
visitors can bring their own pet photos or portraits, which will be
displayed and archived as part of the museum's record of the exhibit
** Archaeologists excavate ancient temple, mural in Peru
Unearthed in Peru's archeologically rich northern coastal desert, the temple
has a staircase leading to an altar that was used for worshipping fire and
making offerings to deities
** Forgotten WWII 'Lightning' fighter found on beach in Wales
Sixty-five years after it ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in
Wales, an American P-38 fighter plane has emerged from the surf and sand
where it lay buried - a World War II relic long forgotten by the U.S.
government and unknown to the British public
** Surge took sea to lifeboat museum
Since then, volunteers have been working to secure the Henry Blogg Museum,
nestled next to the beach at the end of the town's promenade, ahead of the
next high tide
** Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical
notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility
that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a sombre composition to
accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting
** Blaze of splendour and museum spat over Tutankhamen
Dr John Taylor, assistant keeper at the British Museum, said that in 1972
the proceeds raised from the exhibition went on the conservation of the
Philae temple complex, adding that he was "a little surprised" by Hawass's
claim
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** A Fake Museum
A 1970s biography of Zhou Enlai, China's prime minister under Mao Zedong,
that was printed in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution might
seem an unlikely victim of intellectual property rights infringement
** Mayor of bankrupt US city spends millions on Wild West museum
The mayor of one of Pennsylvania's most debt-laden cities spent millions of
dollars in public money on everything from covered wagons to copper
marshal's badges for a museum about cowboys, Indians and the Wild West
** Weapon museum in 'no knives' push
The weaponry museum says its NTK - No To Knives campaign aims to cut the
number of knives on the streets
** Oscars to get their own museum in Hollywood
French architect Christian de Portzamparc has been named to design the
world's largest and most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film
and the Oscars
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo, July 23 to August 22 - All of your questions concerning spontaneous
combustion will suddenly be answered this Friday
** Colossus does battle anew with German cipher
War-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill credited those who built and
operated Colossus at the Bletchley Park estate, including famed code-breaker
Alan Turing, with helping to shorten World War Two by up to 18 months
** Reagan library can't find items
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum can't locate or account
for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years
** The Relevancy-Driven Museum - Call For Proposals
** Graduate Student Conference in Archives, Rare Books and Special
Collections
** Riding a Melodic Tide: The Development of Cantopop in Hong Kong
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