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week's edition include:
** Hunt for gang leaders behind raids on priceless regional museum
collections
The same gang leaders are thought to be behind the theft of Chinese jade
antiquities worth up to £15 million from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam
Museum in April and a failed attempt to steal a rhino head valued at up to
£500,000 from Norwich Castle Museum two months earlier
** Restorers may have found Giotto initials in Assisi
Restorers believe they may have found the initials of Giotto in a fresco
attributed to the early Renaissance master in the lower basilica of St
Francis in Assisi
** 'Real-life' Indiana Jones sues over crystal skull
A Belizean archaeologist is suing the makers of a blockbuster Indiana Jones
film for using a likeness of a so-called crystal skull, which he says is a
stolen national treasure
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** The Louvre takes art out of Paris, but will the crowds follow?
Until this week, the depressed former coal-mining town of Lens in Northern
France had just two claims to fame: it has the tallest slag-heaps in Europe,
and its football club, currently marooned in Ligue 2, has the most
passionate fans in France
** Suffragette autograph album illuminates movement's struggles
The album, which dates back to 1909, includes 50 autographs from
suffragettes and sympathisers, many written from prison following Emmeline
Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union's second window-breaking
campaign in 1912
** Alaska reclaims moon rocks missing since 1973 museum fire
The rocks disappeared until late 2010 when the foster son of the museum
director claimed he had rescued them from rubble destined for a landfill
** Largest Egyptian Sarcophagus Indentified
The largest ancient Egyptian sarcophagus has been identified in a tomb in
Egypt's Valley of the Kings, say archaeologists who are re-assembling the
giant box that was reduced to fragments more than 3,000 years ago
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** The Kennedy Assassin Who Failed
Murphy was put off by the strange tone of the postcards, and his curiosity
led him to do what postmasters do - look at the postmarks
** Take a Virtual 3D Journey to Visit China's Caves of the Thousand Buddhas
In a remarkable marriage of the ancient and the high tech, the Sackler
welcomes an innovative and precise 3D digital representation of one of the
Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, also known as the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site that is one of the finest examples of Buddhist art in
existence
** Jail for pair who stole £500,000 sculpture and sold it to scrap dealer
for...£46
If proof were needed that the names of Liam Hughes and Jason Parker are not
destined for the ranks of the nation's criminal masterminds, it came when
the pair turned up at a scrap metal dealer brandishing a large and unusual
bronze sundial
** Petersen Museum Is Opening Its Vault to Visitors
There are cars with political provenance, including the Bugatti given to the
Shah of Iran as a wedding present from France, Saddam Hussein's Mercedes and
the first bulletproof car ordered new by the White House (and ordered the
day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor)
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** The Art of Cartier
From private collectors or auction, the more than 1,450 pieces in this
collection have been selected based on criteria of style, but also the
materials they are made or the techniques used
** Shake, rattle and rule: Keep your Royal Morning Sickness sick bags handy
Following on from her limited edition Royal Wedding Sick Bag, the artist has
come up with a vessel to accommodate extreme reactions to the new third in
line to the throne - Royal Morning Sickness sick bags
** Rare St Ursula badge donated to Museum of Lancashire
They were popular between the late 12th and early 16th Centuries and
pilgrims would buy one with a different image of a saint at each shrine they
visited
** Site of Interest - Animated Victorians: Anatomy from 111 Years Ago
The images, illustrated by E. J. Stanley, are unique in that they are made
up of three pages which flap-up; each turn revealing another layer of the
human body, from bones and muscles, to brains and organs
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** Cavemen Trump Modern Artists at Drawing Animals
Paleolithic people living more than 10,000 years ago had a better artistic
eye than modern painters and sculptures - at least when it came to watching
how horses and other four-legged animals move
** London's Dickens Museum reopens after makeover
For years, the four-story brick row house where the author lived with his
young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum, a mecca for Dickens
scholars but overlooked by most visitors to London
** Neffi The Spidernaut Has Died
The loss of this special animal that inspired so many imaginations will be
felt throughout the museum community; the body of Neffi will be added to the
museum's collection of specimens where she will continue to contribute to
the understanding of spiders
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - There hasn't been a stampeding death in your area in more than a
century, but your air horn and steer costume will change all that
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** History etched in glass
In an age when photographs are shot, finessed and circulated to millions of
people within seconds, Australia's rarest collection of photojournalism is
an evocative insight into another time
** The search is on to find the faker behind Piltdown Man
The bones and stones found in a gravel pit near Piltdown Common in Sussex,
shortly before the First World War, have been exposed as fakes for more than
half a century, yet even now we do not know the perpetrator's identity or
motive
** Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center's seminar - March 14 and 15, 2013
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