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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** 10,000 year-old mummified mammoth is the most perfect ever discovered
Not only is its discovery providing new clues about the lifestyle of these
prehistoric giants, it has also raised the tantalising prospect that its DNA
could be used to create a cloned mammoth, bringing the creatures back from
extinction
** Museum's tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth
The British Museum yesterday hailed a discovery within a modest clay tablet
in its collection as a breakthrough for biblical archaeology - dramatic
proof of the accuracy of the Old Testament
** Italy threatens sanctions against museum
Italy's culture minister said Tuesday that he has sent the J. Paul Getty
Museum a proposal to resolve a dispute over allegedly looted antiquities,
and threatened the Los Angeles museum with sanctions if a deal is not
reached by the end of this month
** Country Doctor Museum will make you queasy
One doctor tooled the countryside looking for rags tied to mailboxes - the
signal that he was needed
** Unused Titanic ticket found in US
Margaret Hallem from Illinois said her Irish grandmother had been due to
sail on the White Star liner, but missed the trip due to bad weather
** Modern-day 'tomb raiders' feel the heat
When he wasn't in prison, the convicted looter operated for decades in this
countryside area outside Rome, benefiting from what he says was lax
surveillance that allowed him to dig into ancient Roman villas and unearth
statues, pottery and other artefacts which he then sold for millions of
dollars on the illegal antiquities market
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** A temple to the tote
Hold everything - a museum has opened in Amsterdam dedicated to handbags
** Cavalry museum opens in Whitehall
The Horse Guards have performed their role as the Queens life guard in a
daily ceremony that has remained almost unchanged for more than 350 years
** Police Recover Rare Swiss Watches Under Oak Tree
A bag that contained all the watches stolen on July 5 from the
Girard-Perregaux Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds was recovered near the French
town of Valdahon
** A new museum confronts an old mystery at Masada
The exhibit at the end of the tour of the new museum at Masada consists of
11 tiny sherds bearing intriguing names
** Bulldozer man's unique petrified forest
Clyde Friend's life changed the moment his bulldozer hit the first tree on a
hot summer afternoon in 2002 as he levelled a hill behind his workshop
** Albania's long-lost Roman city
Lord Rothschild, banker and philanthropist, could see what was happening
from his villa on the Greek Island of Corfu, little more than a mile across
the water
** Iran to reweave Milan museum's Safavid carpet
The Traditional Arts Research Centre plans to reweave the "Hunting Carpet",
a Safavid-era rug on display at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan
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** This week's Horoscopes
Your Birthday Today - You'll be swarmed by a rare strain of Americanized
killer bees who, unlike their Africanized cousins, just want to hang out and
watch TV all day
** China's terracotta tomb site hides mystery building
After five years of research, archaeologists have confirmed that a
30-meter-high building is buried in the vast mausoleum of Emperor
Qinshihuang near the former capital, Xian, in the north-western province of
Shaanxi
** Tempest Over A Teapot Museum
It might sound far-fetched that a quirky collection of teapots would draw
60,000 tourists each year to Sparta, N.C., population 18,000
** Museum to comfort women opens in Shanghai
The archive, which tells the stories of the s#x slaves kept by Japanese
soldiers during World War II, was expected to greet some 300 visitors a day
on its opening weekend
** Wreckage of Lockerbie jet could be put on display at museum
The Museum of Transport in Glasgow hopes to receive confirmation shortly
that most of the surviving parts of the plane will not be required as
evidence in the forthcoming appeal by the convicted bomber Abdelbaset Ali
Mohmed al-Megrahi
** Dutch museums put their surplus art on eBay
Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings,
statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site
eBay
** Hong Kong Postal Items Exhibition
** The Past and the Power of Space
** Stemming the Tide: Archives and the Digital World
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