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The international headlines this week (for the full story visit the webzine)
include:
** Seahenge may be buried
One of the most important Bronze Age sites to be excavated in Europe in
recent years is likely to be reburied to preserve it for future generations
** Swedish police arrest 4 in museum theft
Police have arrested four men in the theft of three Renoir and Rembrandt
paintings from Stockholm's waterfront National Museum, but the precious art
works remain missing
** Rodent mummies found in Egyptian tombs
A cemetery of mummified animals, which experts say could shed new light on
ancient Egypt's religious beliefs, has been discovered by archaeologists at
Abydos, southern Egypt
** Monolith Vanishes Mysteriously, as It Arrived
Dawn of the new year, 2001: A mysterious steel monolith appears on a
windswept hilltop in a public park
** Rare Temple Mount lintel neglected by Antiquities Authority
A carved marble lintel dug out of the Temple Mount rubbish last year and
identified as part of a gate to the Temple itself has been tossed carelessly
in the back yard of the Antiquities Authority
** The smelly secret of Halitosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus Rex, king of the dinosaurs, suffered from an embarrassing
affliction - he had appalling bad breath
** A drowned ship with a million artifacts
When La Salle realized that Matagorda Bay was not the mouth of the
Mississippi, he set off on several eastward expeditions overland to find the
great river
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** Designer's offbeat furniture sells for thousands today
A designer of some of the more unusual pieces was Paul Evans. He was a
sculptor who made one-of-a-kind furniture from steel, bronze and wood
** Nazi looting saved art from bombings, gallery director says
Ian Lumsden, executive director of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in
Fredericton, says "it's not the worst thing in the world" that some art
works stolen from European Jews have ended up in galleries and museums
around the world
** A museum far from the madding crowds
Saturday evening, a host of the city's glitterati and chatterati landed at
some place away from Hosur and looked visibly puzzled as to why they had
come there
** Museum Shows Holocaust Treasure
If "The Diary of Anne Frank" is the most poignant document of the Holocaust
era, then Charlotte Salomon's "Life? Or Theater?" an illustrated
semi-biographical narrative, runs a close second
** Three Gorges Museum Under Construction
The museum consists of several galleries featuring the natural history and
culture of the Three Gorges area, relics unearthed in the Three Gorges area,
the history and culture of Chongqing, and arts and folkways
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** Mysteries of the Mounds
Almost 1000 years ago, Ocmulgee became one of the first large ceremonial
centers of an ancient civilization. Feature Video
** Selections of American Folk Art Offered in Sotheby's Auction
Among the highlights from the various-owner sale are three drawings by
legendary Alabama folk artist Bill Traylor, two carved and painted cigar
store Indian figures, a rare Baltimore album quilt and examples of
18th-century embroidery
** A Window's Journey
Tucked away under tight security in one of the attics of the State Hermitage
Museum is a rare 14th-century German stained-glass window
** £200,000 for church silver
The Holy Trinity Church in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, is to sell its
17th-century silver, worth almost £200,000, to the National Museum of
Scotland
** Sue, Dead Sea Scrolls Credited
Field Museum attendance for the year 2000 was 2,360,223 -- an increase of 58
percent over 1999's total of 1,497,026
** Unusual Web sites: Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
Barney has been creating these works of art for 30 years and now has over
510 differently decorated Toilet Seats
** Curator's Departure Rocks Terra
According to court papers filed Tuesday by Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan's
office, Neff was "terminated" because of his internal memos criticizing
Terra Foundation for the Arts board member Ted Stebbins for what he
characterized as Stebbins' inappropriate conduct in acquiring art for the
museum
** Mammals' Tooth Characteristics Evolved on Two Continents
The specialized teeth that enabled ancient, shrew-like creatures to flourish
and gave rise to all modern mammals evolved independently in two animal
groups living continents apart, researchers from the Carnegie Museum of
Natural History report
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** CALL FOR PAPERS and TUTORIALS: ichim2001
** AKHENATEN: Beautiful Child of the Sun Disc
** The American Association for State and Local History "Not Your Ordinary
Workshop Series"
** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th WSES/IEEE WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON Circuits,
Systems, Communications & Computers (CSCC 2001)
** New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference 2001
** News of the upcoming Summit 2001 - Dissolving Distance
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