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week's edition include:
** Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch
To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate
Craig Lee's recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon
might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm
** Met on the move
It’s a happy scene, with a subtext: the austere museum known throughout the
world for its academic rigour and its peerless collections is these days
not above slumming it in the marketing jungle with a larky pun or two
** Protestors urge Tate museum to cut BP ties
A group of artists, calling themselves "The Good Crude Britannia," poured a
black substance - thought to be molasses - from cans emblazoned with the
British oil giant's logo outside the Tate Britain museum
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** Ancient voyager's tomb found in E China
A recently excavated tomb in Nanjing has been confirmed to be the grave of
Zheng He, a eunuch from the early Ming Dynasty who led historic voyages to
Southeast Asia and eastern Africa
** Watching the detectives: Fakes, mistakes and hidden masterpieces
The scholarly staff emerge from behind the scenes, and onto the stage,
explaining the history and the research
** Police seize stolen Caravaggio, make arrests
A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Ukraine two years ago was
recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin
** Baby deaths link to Roman 'brothel' in Buckinghamshire
Archaeologists investigating a mass burial of 97 infants at a Roman villa
in the Thames Valley believe it may have been a brothel
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** Tiny Turkish diatom discovered
A new diatom smaller than the tip of a pin has been discovered in Turkey ,
scientists at the University of Plymouth, with the help of those at the
Natural History Museum
** Ancient Humans May Have Dined on Hyenas
The suspect hyena bones come from Maltravieso cave in the southwest of the
Iberian Peninsula, which is on the southwestern tip of Europe
** Happy Trekking!
Announcing the launch of the goSmithsonian Trek, a new mobile adventure
that takes visitors on a tour of nine Smithsonian museums in a quest to
decode clues and answer questions delivered via a free Apple iPhone or
Android app
** Oldest Apostle Images Revealed by Laser
The Santa Tecla catacombs - situated beneath an office building in Rome's
Ostiense area - contain fourth-century-A.D. paintings of the Apostles Paul,
Peter, John, and Andrew, who were early followers of Jesus Christ
** Searching for the Lost Colony of 1587
It was in the area in the 1990s that the remains of two barrel wells were
found just off a small sand beach in very shallow water
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** A glimpse from dawn of photography
In a dark corner of a back room at the Peabody Essex Museum, the curator
stumbled upon a faded shoebox
** 'Dinosaur' of the motorcycle world discovered in Williams
The mythical coaster, made by late Williams resident Carl Nelk (1870-1946)
in 1912, was thought to either not exist or to have been lost in history
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - A cleansing fire will sweep across the land, purifying countless
souls, purging all guilt and sin, and defrosting a number of delicious
Hungry-Man dinners
** Apollo command module docks at museum
Getting the module, which was used for Skylab's launch and re-entry in the
second manned mission to the United States' first space station, wasn't an
easy task
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** 'I Do!' exhibit fit for a bride
Before then, the day's fashion was to wear one's colorful "Sunday best" -
until Queen Victoria of England broke with tradition and chose ivory satin
for her 1840 nuptials instead of the customary velvet and fur
** New Museum now features police sketch artist capable of finding lost
loves and criminals
The Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander has installed a police sketch
artist on the New Museum's third floor to sit with visitors and draw the
face of their first true love
** Rare 4,600-year-old Ontario burial lifts lid on prehistoric Canada
A 4,600-year-old burial has been discovered in a remote corner of northern
Canada – and could hold the key to how ancient Canadians lived
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** Different Approaches and New Challenges for the Training of Museum
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