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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** US researcher says finds Atlantis off Cyprus
According to ancient Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis was an island nation
where an advanced civilisation developed some 11,500 years ago
** Titanic Founder Fears for Future of Great Wreck
"It's sort of like going into the Louvre (Museum in Paris) with a
bulldozer," said Ballard of the submersibles landing on the deck of the
once-luxury liner
** Goldfish loss upsets staff
Southland Museum and Art Gallery staff were gutted when they turned up to
work last week
** Da Vinci code priest is dug up, hidden from 'rapacious' relic hunters
The mayor of a French village besieged by obsessive fans of The Da Vinci
Code has been forced to dig up the body of a mysterious priest and encase it
in a concrete mausoleum to deter rapacious treasure hunters
** Rogue divers raid war grave wreck
Others are driven by the stories that the wreck might still be hiding panels
from the priceless Amber Room from St Petersburg which were lost in the
chaos of the war
** Egypt to test Tutankhamen mummy
The examinations, which would include a scan and a DNA test, aimed to
establish what killed Tutankhamen, MENA quoted Egyptian antiquities chief
Zahi Hawass as saying
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** Experts flock to Tinian for Earhart excavation
Archaeologist Thomas King, author of five books, including "Amelia Earhart's
Shoes," published in 2001, said he would be "very surprised" to find
Earhart's remains on the tiny island of Tinian, two islands to the north of
Guam in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but said he
doesn't rule the possibility out
** Owner of private Nazi museum suspected of spreading propaganda
An 86-year-old man who displayed war relics at a privately run Nazi museum
may face charges of spreading Nazi propaganda
** Trouble behind the art palace walls
Ever since the J Paul Getty Museum opened with lavish celebrations seven
years ago, rumours of discord and discontent have been seeping from behind
its massive travertine walls
** Search for The Greatest British Invention
The Times in partnership with the National Museum of Science & Industry
(NMSI) will outline 20 of the most significant innovations to come out of
Britain in the last 250 years, and readers will have the chance to vote for
the one they feel has been most important to the modern world
** Museum Manager's attacker jailed for 10 years
It took surgeons five hours to repair the appalling damage and rebuild the
museum manager's face
** Beetle threat to museum exhibits
A Territory museum has fought off a carpet beetle infestation that could
have damaged priceless exhibits if not eradicated
** Lost Afghan artwork, artefacts from national museum identified
Archaeologists have identified more than 22,000 rare Afghan art and
historical treasures as artefacts that vanished from the Afghanistan
national museum during the 1979-1989 Soviet invasion and occupation of that
country, elating officials and scholars who hope to restore them to a
rebuilt museum in downtown Kabul
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** Post-war Squabbles Threaten Bosnia's Museums
In ethnically divided Bosnia, no one wants to foot the bill for a heritage
that is neither Muslim, Serb nor Croat
** Museums 'at risk of robberies'
A covert security review of some of London's top museums has revealed
priceless collections are at risk of theft
** Museum prays it can keep old book
An attempt to save a 14th Century Psalter for the UK at the Fitzwilliam
Museum in Cambridge has achieved a welcome boost
** Archaeologists uncover a Russian Stonehenge
In the summer, a 4,000-year-old megalithic structure was uncovered at a
Spasskaya Luka site, in the central Russian region of Ryazan
** First truffle museum no trifle in Italy
Italy's warty white truffles, once aphrodisiacs for the ancient Romans and
now the most expensive fungi in the world, are finally getting their own
museum
** Prehistoric Discoveries - InfoGraphic
The creators of The Onion identify some of the breakthroughs made by
palaeontologists this year !
** Brown Bears Moved South Before Ice Age, Study Says
A fragment of a bear skull housed for several years in a Canadian museum may
be rewriting the history of North America's brown bears
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** Australian Registrars Committee Conference
** Masterpieces in Enamel and Ivory. Pietro Bagatti Valsecchi and the
d'après Miniature
** Exploring National Identity: Italian Design in the Twentieth Century
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