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In your FREE Museum Ezine   GLOBAL MUSEUM this week:

**Cooks in Shakespeare's day stir up change**
While William Shakespeare toiled in his garret, scratching out the tragedies
and comedies that remain the most widely read plays in the English language,
cooks in Shakespeare's day were downstairs in the kitchen stirring up a
parallel revolution in the culinary arts

**Brazil Unveils 'Luiza' As Earliest Known American**
Anthropologists in Rio unveiled the oldest known human fossil from the
Americas, a woman's skull with African features that could revolutionize
theories on the continent's early inhabitants.

**Forbidden City unlocks treasures to U.S. museum **
China has agreed to an unprecedented loan of cultural treasures from the
Forbidden City for an exhibit in California's Bowers Museum

**New York mayor criticizes museum over art show **
A controversial British art exhibit that shows a statue of the Virgin Mary
covered in elephant dung has aroused the ire of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

**N.Y. legislator wants tougher law on stolen art **
A senior New York state legislator, responding to a court ruling blocking
prosecutors from seizing paintings allegedly stolen by the Nazis, on
Thursday proposed changing the law to let the state intercede in such cases.
**Palestinians inaugurate heritage museum**
The Palestinian Authority inaugurated a museum in the West Bank on Wednesday
in which cultural heritage and a legacy of tragedy will share centre stage.

**Salvagers find rich shipwreck cargo off S.Africa**
At least $20 million worth of delicate Chinese porcelain could be recovered
from the wreck of a Dutch East India Company ship which sank off South
Africa over two centuries ago

**Scott's South Pole flag saved for nation by museum **
The silk sledging flag used by legendary explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his
ill-fated Antarctic trip will stay in Britain after the National Maritime
Museum bought it just a day before it was due to be auctioned.

**Pope's Polish home sought by former Jewish owner **
A descendant of the Jewish owners of the house in Poland where Pope John
Paul was born has begun legal steps to recover the property, which is now a
museum on the Pontiff's life. .

**Greece recovers stolen antiquities hoard in Miami **
Scores of precious ancient artefacts stolen from the Corinth Museum nine
years ago have been recovered in Miami and will soon find their way home

**Atlanta man admits trying to sell fake moon rock **
Lawyers for the heiress of an Austrian Jewish industrialist who fled the
Nazis in 1938 charged Austria on Tuesday with refusing to restore five
world-famous paintings to their rightful owner

**False trails
DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS tell us less than we thought about the animals that made
them. A geologist in Indiana has found that it's almost impossible to tell
which species made which prints, dashing hopes that tracks could be used to
reveal how the dinosaurs lived

**The (seriously embarrassing) way we were**
Atom bombs to free oil?  AMERICAN ATOMIC physicists are giving much thought
to peaceful uses for nuclear bombs. Of the several suggestions that have
been publicly mentioned, those concerned with the release of underground oil
deposits are most common

**Pop centre fails to shake off the blues**
Only half the expected number of visitors attended the National Centre for
Popular Music in Sheffield in its first six months

**Statens Museum for Kunst  'Master of illusion' **
Cornelius Gijsbrechts and his Age'.

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