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week's edition include:
** Fans Want Floppy the Dog to Sit and Stay, but Museum Won't Roll Over
The museum's curator said that an institution with about 76,000 artifacts
needs to rotate its holdings so more of them get seen, and that 19 years was
way too long for an object made of Floppy's materials to go without major
maintenance
** Egypt's National Treasures Threatened by Political Unrest
Even before Egypt's military overthrew the Islamist government of President
Mohamed Morsi, the country's antiquities were under severe threat from
looting and institutional corruption amplified by the political chaos that
followed the Arab Spring
** Rascals and Heroes, Before the Babe
Rows and rows of long-dead ballplayers stare out from the past like the
mug-shot denizens of the New York Police Department's once-famous Rogues
Gallery
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** Fire ravages Voltaire's former home with murals, paintings and frescoes
lost
A major fire on Wednesday severely damaged a landmark 17th century Paris
mansion once home to Voltaire, destroying artwork dating back several
centuries
** Coffee brews trace Singapore roots at Singapore HeritageFest
The Singapore HeritageFest, which is into its 10th year, will roll-out 20
programmes across the island including a coffee-themed exhibition at the
Singapore Philatelic Museum
** Pharaoh's Sphinx Paws Found in Israel
Between the paws is a hieroglyphic inscription with the name of king
Menkaure, sometimes called Mycerinus, who ruled Egypt during the Old Kingdom
more than 4,000 years ago and built one of the great Giza pyramids
** High River museum staff shocked at scope of destruction
Outside the Memorial Centre, an assembly line of people, dressed in hazard
suits patiently triage - rinse, wash, and in the case of textiles, freeze,
items pulled from the still-muddy basement
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** Vast, ancient and sophisticated city uncovered beneath Angkor Wat
The release this month by the National Academy of Sciences in the US of a
report on the results of a high-tech survey of Khmer Empire sites has rocked
the archaeological world and captured travellers' imaginations
** Museum works to preserve carriages, history
The Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West museum's carriage collection is the
largest one of functioning wagons in the world with 168 vehicles
** An Amsterdam Museum Pays Tribute to Its History
There is also a surprising tribute to more modern tastes: against the
Rijksmuseum's massive 19th-century facade, the museum has installed in its
gardens an exhibition of 12 Henry Moore sculptures in bronze and fiberglass.
Some of the works have never before left England
** A Remarkable Tale of Manuscript Sleuthing
In a slim box in the manuscripts secure storage at The British Library are
three parchment fragments, mounted side-by-side between two pieces of glass
in a wooden frame
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** Chicago's Field Museum defends its renowned research reputation amid
budget cutback
Best known for impressive public displays such as Sue, the towering
Tyrannosaurus rex that greets visitors in the lobby of its Lake Michigan
campus, the Field Museum's larger mission always has been behind-the-scenes
research on its 25 million-piece - and growing - collection of birds,
mammals, fish, plants, fossils and artifacts
** Artists and Scientists: More Alike Than Different
In DaVinci's time when expertise in art and science had not yet matured to
the polarized state in which they exist today, they coexisted naturally
** Disabled girl barred from museum because wheelchair would "get the
carpet dirty"
A disabled Charlotte girl was barred from visiting a maritime museum because
her wheelchair would "get the carpet dirty," her family claims
** Memories vivid at Iraq torture centre turned museum
Once used to extract so-called confessions from fighters opposed to Saddam,
since 1996 the Red House has exhibited the torture used by regime loyalists
before the three-province Kurdish region of northern Iraq gained some
autonomy - and respite - from the dictator's rule
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** Oldest Known Primitive Writing' Uncovered in China
Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world's oldest known
primitive writing, dating back 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some of
the markings etched on broken axes resemble a modern Chinese character
** Damaged Christ sculpture fronts violence on art exhibition
A damaged sculpture of Christ that lay hidden for hundreds of years beneath
the floor of a London chapel will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at the
Tate Britain this year that explores physical attacks on art works
** Citizen Scientists Enlisted to Map Ancient Hillforts
British researchers are soliciting help from citizen scientists to gather
information on some 5,000 Iron Age hillforts that dot the United Kingdom and
Ireland
** Early humans in Iran were growing wheat 12,000 years ago
Among stone grinding tools, clay figures shaped like humans and animals and
carved bone artifacts, archaeologists have harvested ancient grains from an
early human settlement that are preserved 12,000 years
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** Zoo Visitors Watch Mating Rituals Of Ice Cream Shop Staff
Describing the behavior as bizarre yet captivating, dozens of visitors to
the Saint Louis Zoo reportedly looked on in fascination Saturday as the ice
cream shop's staff engaged in their unique mating rituals (humour)
** British Museum exhibition examines legend of El Dorado
When the 15th-century Spanish conquistadors saw the magnificent gold of
ancient Colombia, they greatly admired the superb workmanship - then melted
down anything they could get hold of and shipped it back to Spain as gold
ingots
** Met Museum Misled Visitors on Entry Cost, Former Manager Says
Cashiers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were paid in part based on how
much they collected at the door and management discouraged them from
disclosing that the price of admission can be as little as one cent, a
former employee said in a sworn affidavit
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** Wounded Home
Lloyd Library and Museum
** The Splendours of Royal Costume: Qing Court Attire
Hong Kong Museum of History
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