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week's edition include:
** Museum to help return of Marbles
On a visit to the building site at the foot of the Acropolis, Karamanlis
said the construction of the 129-million-euro project is moving ahead and
will be completed by the middle of 2007
** Museum slide ride thrills Londoners
Hundreds of people have lined up to try out a new installation of giant
slides at London's Tate Modern Museum
** Molasses, mules & music
Sorghum molasses brews over the fire while students stand at each end of the
crosscut saw, pulling it back and forth through a log
** Neglect of War Museum
Its poor architectural design and inadequate maintenance, do not show total
commitment by the Nigerian government that built the all important historic
institution
** Team battles illness, gunmen on $1 billion treasure hunt
The Nuestra Senora de la Magdalena sank about a mile off the Jama River in
1612, where the sea's treacherous shoals swallowed the ship. In the hold was
a king's ransom of gold, silver and gems
** Drill hole begins Homeric quest
A UK-led team is challenging cherished ideas on Greek mythology by proposing
an alternative site for Ithaca
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** Art row to go public
The National Gallery of Victoria will make public its review of how it dealt
with the conflict-of-interest uproar that ended the career of a top curator
** Ancient skeleton to return home
A world famous archaeological find - a 26,000-year-old skeleton discovered
in the Paviland cave on Gower - is set to return to Wales
** Japan's Robot Museum opens
Armed only with an iPod audio guide, you can go face-to-face with heavy-duty
industrial robots, old school icons like Robby the Robot and an army of
modern Robosapiens
** Museum's jar with 3 fingers tells brutal tale
Some 125 years after the notorious crime, it is Mary Bach's fingers that
have become synonymous with the historical museum - for better or worse
** Portrait won't Gogh
The Van Gogh Museum experts will take microscopic slices of paint and ground
layers from the portrait and test them to determine when it was painted
** It's a hobbit... no, it's a human... no, it's a hobbit
The battle over the "hobbit" that lived 18,000 years ago on the Indonesian
island of Flores is taking on epic proportions worthy of The Lord of the
Rings
** Vandals sack glories of ancient Egypt
A pair of sniggering schoolboys grope the breasts of a 3,500-year-old bust
of an Egyptian queen, while a sarcophagus dating from 1500BC is used as a
makeshift rubbish bin and a climbing frame
** Shoelace tag valued above gold
A simple tag to prevent shoelaces from fraying was deemed to be worth more
than gold by the indigenous Cubans who traded with Christopher Columbus.
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** Army archaeologist seeks to heighten soldiers' sensitivity
Rush, who's been at Fort Drum eight years, said she felt compelled to
develop an awareness program after the British Museum last year reported the
defiling of the ancient city of Babylon in 2003 by invading U.S. Marines,
who damaged and contaminated artefacts dating back thousands of years
** Did the Getty Get Off Easy?
With this report, and with the refusal by all parties to provide further
details on its findings, it's not just the Getty Trust that has shown
disregard for its public trust, it's also the California attorney general's
office
** French archbishop's 200-year-old dentures go on show in London
The 18-century porcelain dentures, which will be displayed at the Museum of
London in the City district, were found sitting snugly in the mouth of the
Archbishop of Narbonne, France, Arthur Richard Dillon, who died in 1806
** In Mexico, what's sacred isn't safe
Thefts from churches have become routine here in the colonial heartland of
Mexico, spurred by collectors' demand, a dwindling number of legitimate
pieces and what appears to be a remote chance of prosecution
** Ancient hair dye used nanotechnology
A 2000-year-old recipe for hair dye shows Ancient Greeks and Romans used
nanotechnology to permanently colour grey hair black, say experts
** ICEE Meeting in Paris
** Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong
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