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** Bones found at prison may belong to real-life Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Archaeologists may have unearthed the remains of a woman whose execution had
a lasting impact on the writer Thomas Hardy, inspiring the fate of one of
his most beloved creations – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
** Hidden Tutankhamun tomb chambers ‘full of treasures’
Reeves has found a wall behind the tomb of Tutankhamun leading to a room
where there is proven to be metals, stones ... it is full of treasures
** New FIFA museum draws line on Sepp Blatter regime
Whether Prince Ali's transparent voting booths, six of which arrived in
Zurich on Wednesday, will join the exhibits in future remains to be seen
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** A Museum for Our Postnatural Age
The Center for PostNatural History’s mission is to collect, document, and
study living organisms that have been intentionally altered by people
** Reward offered for decoding ancient Indian gold coins
The Cultural Relics Bureau of Jinshi city has offered 10,000 yuan (1,500
U.S. dollars) to anyone who can explain the mystery of the coins, housed in
the city's museum
** Artists secretly 3D scan bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti and release 3D
Print files online
It is with this sense of historical betrayal that two artists took matters
into their own hands to free the bust by secretly 3D scanning the artifact
in an attempt to free the 3D imagery of Nefertiti back into the public
domain
** Art Historians Miss the Mark: Follow the Money Trail for Surprising
Revelations
Not surprisingly, artists were eager to please patrons lest they be
criticized and penalized, giving them black marks that could hurt them in a
fiercely competitive marketplace for commissions--and even terminate their
careers
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** Humans started having sex with Neanderthals over 100,000 years ago
This new study corroborates this finding, revealing that at least one group
of modern humans made it all the way to the Altai mountains over 100,000
years ago, where they formed families with the local Neanderthals
** Museum makeover aims to maximize storage space
The textile collection of the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation is
getting a makeover thanks to RE-ORG Canada, a program that aims to help
maximize storage space and make artifacts easier to find
** Tunisia museum gunmen 'not searched' before terror attack
Tunisian museum security guards failed to search two heavily armed gunmen
before they shot dead 22 people including a British woman in a terrorist
attack, an inquest heard
** Inside the unboxing of terra-cotta warriors at the Field Museum
When the figure known as a standing archer was found, it was one of
thousands making up a 3rd century B.C. underground army crafted out of
terra-cotta to protect a Chinese emperor in the afterlife
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** 10 offbeat museums in Berlin
In addition to the renowned Museum Island, Germany's capital has about 200
other museum attractions, packed with treasures from the whimsical to the
enlightening
** 9-year-old gives up his bedroom for natural history museum
Maria and Miller Williams are the only children on their block whose
collection includes an alligator skull, a reindeer pelt and a Black Angus
cow pelvis
** Security plan at National Civil War Museum 'is a disaster'
The mayor said corner stores and bars in the city apparently have better
security systems and of 35 cameras at the museum, only certain ones were set
to record, according to a source close to the investigation
** Taiwan turns to museum diplomacy to boost global standing
Blocked by Beijing from maintaining diplomatic ties with most of the world
and barred from many global organisations, Taiwan is turning to museum
diplomacy to boost its international standing and highlight its history as a
regional entrepôt rather than a province of China
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** National Museum of Scotland to open 10 new galleries in major expansion
Museum to get new fashion gallery and space for exhibits including Dunlop’s
first pneumatic tyre and a tongue-scraper belonging to Napoleon’s sister
** Why Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Brand New Logo Already So
Unpopular?
The whole ensemble looks like a red double-decker bus that has stopped
short, shoving the passengers into each other’s backs
** Sarah Parcak Is a Space Archaeologist. Soon You Will Be Too
Using an idea that’s already had success in biology and chemistry, Parcak
wants to turn the act of searching for archaeological sites into a game on
your phone
** Field Museum launching limited-edition beer
Field Museum researchers discovered a Wari brewery in southern Peru that
existed between 600 and 1050 A.D., and found residue from maize and molle
berries at the site, which suggests the Wari combined them “to make a more
potent, flavoursome brew than standard chicha, a traditional corn beer”
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** At LA's Broad Museum, A New Approach To Protecting Art
The Broad guards have no uniforms — they wear black clothes, bright red
lanyards and big smiles
** Summer School 2016 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
** TIME/Teaching Institute in Museum Education
August 7 through 12, 2016
** Heritage Dogma: Policy and Practice - Searching for Missing Links
Call for Papers
** Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2016
Call for Papers
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Either the whole thing is just one big coincidence, or they named
a deadly species of bloodsucking parasite after you for a reason.
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