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In your FREE International Museum Ezine, GLOBAL MUSEUM, this week:

*Mummy's secrets unwrapped on the Internet
The Internet can now be used by everyone to peer inside a 2300-year-old
Egyptian mummy

*Britain says Elgin Marbles not returning to Greece
Britain on Tuesday quashed speculation that it was considering returning the
disputed Elgin Marbles to Greece, saying the classical statues would stay
put in the British Museum

*New Tombs Suggest Rome Century Older Than Thought
Archeologists have unearthed four tombs in central Rome dating from the 9th
century BC, suggesting the Eternal City could be more than a century older
than previously thought

*Hiroshima Survivors To Protest A-Bomb Earrings Survivors of the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima said they will make a formal complaint to a U.S. museum
Friday for selling earrings shaped like the bomb

*Musical Archive Of J.S. Bach Son Found In Ukraine The musical archive of
Johann Sebastian Bach's second son, feared lost after World War II, was
found in June by scholars from Harvard University and the Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences at a state-run museum in Kiev

*Nazi-looted Van Gogh returned to Jewish owner A drawing by Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh looted by the Nazis over 50 years ago from a Jewish
collector was handed back to his family Wednesday by a German museum

*Argentine museum to preserve memory of Holocaust
The cornerstone of Latin America's first Holocaust Museum was laid on
Thursday in Argentine capital Buenos Aires supervised by survivors of the
Second World War concentration camps and ghettos it depicts.

*Art crook who would not quit gets 55 months in jail
A man who swindled art patrons out of $450,000 -- and continued his fraud
even after pleading guilty to several charges -- was sentenced to almost
five years in prison

*Canada's Ellis Island lays out welcome mat again
At 23, Alice Coulter had never been out of Scotland, never traveled by ship
and did not even like water

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