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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Israel opens world's largest Holocaust museum
Hundreds of guests gathered for a full-scale evening ceremony of dedication
complete with moving Yiddish lullabies and speeches at the sprawling Vad
Vashem Holocaust memorial compound on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem
** Archaeologist Believes He Has Found St. Paul's Tomb
He soon discovered that by lifting up certain pavement stones in the
basilica's floor, a series of underground chambers and tunnels were
accessible - most of them unmapped and forgotten
** Feds want shipwreck divers to return recovered artefacts
A member of the Sea Rovers said his team of divers had already voluntarily
turned over to the Coast Guard most of the artefacts, including a
1,200-pound bronze bell, and planned to give them the rest
** Child's play at 20,000 toy museum
The museum, at Penfynnon Farm near Llangeler in Carmarthenshire, has been
planned for more than 10 years by three toy collectors
** Fifteen Years After Heist, Museum Pleads For Help
While claiming it continues to follow leads on a weekly basis, the FBI
admitted that recovering the 13 stolen works of art is like trying to find a
needle in a haystack
** Museum demands proof of 'Sydney' discovery
The Australian Maritime Museum in Western Australia has demanded scientific
proof from a Brisbane group claiming to have solved the nation's greatest
maritime mystery
** Secret life, secret obsession in museum thefts case
The plate number, along with surveillance footage taken from another museum
100 miles southwest of Scobey in Glasgow, helped lead investigators to
Jeffry Stevens, a grey-haired history buff from Fallbrook
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** The art world's biggest spender is 'placed under house arrest'
The world's biggest art collector, Sheikh Saud Al Thani of Qatar, who has
spent hundreds of millions of pounds during the last decade buying some of
the most important works, has been placed under house arrest after being
abruptly removed as head of his country's national council for culture
** Cleopatra a thinker not a lover
Long before Shakespeare portrayed her as history's most exotic femme fatale,
Cleopatra was revered throughout the Arab world - for her brain
** Just ducking out for a long lunch
And that's what 1000 diners got at yesterday's World's Longest Lunch at
Melbourne Museum
** Neanderthals sang like sopranos
Neanderthals had strong, yet high-pitched, voices that the stocky hominins
used for both singing and speaking, says a UK researcher
** Field Museum's project draws drug warning
The United States Agency for International Development has intervened in an
experimental conservation program in Peru run by Chicago's Field Museum,
cutting aid to three communities involved in the project and calling into
question the program's compliance with U.S. drug policy
** Thinking Big
An imposing man at 6 feet 5 inches, the director of the Guggenheim Museum
has just launched his latest exhibition in Rome and is already looking ahead
to bigger and better things in Italy and across the globe
** Asian Embroidery Exhibition opens in Moscow
Visitors will see rare embroideries made by the Lokai, a nomad nation of
southern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which are famous for their ornamental
patterns
** Rains close water museum
In the ultimate irony, mudslides resulting from the winter's heavy rain have
knocked out water lines to the Vista del Lago Visitors Centre, shutting down
the hilltop museum that celebrates California's water system
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** Divers find Bronze Age treasure off Devon coast
The objects, dating from the 13th century BC include swords, rapiers, an
adze, a gold bracelet, the head of an axe and the handle of a cauldron
** Hobbit skeleton 'damaged'
An Australian archaeologist has drafted a damning letter describing
extensive damage to the bones of the "Hobbit", the 18,000-year-old hominid
remains found on an Indonesian island
** Discovery repaints Cook's passive death
A newly discovered 200-year-old picture showing Capt. James Cook fighting
for his life in Hawaii is grabbing attention in the art world for the way it
shows the British explorer going to his death
** Malaria, not murder, killed Medicis
Two brothers in the Medici dynasty of Renaissance Italy likely were not the
long-rumoured victims of murder, a new analysis of their centuries-old bones
has concluded
** Untold story of Edison
"He was a thief - a pirate," alleges Walt Zaczeck, a historian in Niagara
Falls, N.Y.
** Egypt's 'second Rome' arises from the waters
Submerged in shallow water near Abu Qir for more than 2 000 years, these
finds include a colossal granite statue of Isis, a sphinx, columns and
capitals which archaeologists speculate may come from Cleopatra's palace:
all of them are being exhibited for the first time.
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