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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Former Getty curator charged with Greek art theft
The accusation that former antiquities curator Marion True illegally
obtained a 4th-century BC golden wreath is the latest controversy
surrounding acquisitions she made for the wealthy Los Angeles-based museum
Getty Museum Breaks Off Talks With Italy
** Toledo Museum's Goya painting recovered in New Jersey
The FBI said extensive media coverage of the theft led to tips that enabled
the agency to recover the painting
** 3,000-year-old tools to museum
A man with a metal detector who came across a hoard of prehistoric bronze
tools and weapons has handed over his find to the National Museum Wales
** WWII museum gets artefact from Norwegian government
What appears to be just a rusty, metal barrel is actually a relic from World
War II that once contained an ingredient that could have helped the Nazis
produce an atomic bomb
** Java sunken treasure to be sold
Salvaged after 1,000 years at the bottom of the sea, the haul includes bowls
from China, Thailand and Vietnam; perfume bottles from Persia; and swords
and tablets engraved with Koranic inscriptions
** Mahler heir to get work by Munch back at last
An advisory panel handling claims for items looted by the Nazis during World
War II has recommended that a Vienna gallery return an Edvard Munch painting
to the heir of its former owner, the granddaughter of the late composer
Gustav Mahler
** Tasteless Story of The Week - Bona fide human factory opens doors in
eastern Germany
Given its Nazi past, Germany has a special responsibility toward respecting
the dead, but Mr. von Hagens has trampled on this responsibility
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** How toilet habits killed off Dead Sea Scrolls sect
The toilet research conducted by Dr Tabor and his colleagues stemmed,
curiously, from a much broader controversy over the authorship of the Dead
Sea Scrolls
** Heirlooms taken from museum, woman told
A woman who took two family heirlooms onto the BBC's Antiques Roadshow only
to be told they had been listed as 'missing' from the British Museum can
breathe again
** The mystery of the iron dagger
Gleaming in the central display cabinet in the small museum that accompanies
the restoration of the Hudson's Bay Company complex that succeeded Simon
Fraser's North West Company trading post is a formidable iron dagger
** The extraordinary story of Rupert the rhino
This week, the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum released a photograph
of Rupert snoozing on a living room rug while a boy in an armchair relaxed
with a book
** Tomb of Aztec emperor may lie in Mexico
A date carved on the stone suggests it contains the remains of emperor
Ahuizotl, the father of Moctezuma, the Aztec ruler defeated by the
Spaniards.
** Museum exhibit space goes on eBay
The winning bidder can put an exhibit of their choice, which portrays London
life, into the box
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** Natural Science museum opens up vault doors of exhibit
The elegant ambience sets the mood for the opulent main attraction - gems of
mind-boggling proportions
** London museum makes sweet music with exhibition
Now the country's most famous music instrument maker is being celebrated in
an exhibition chronicling a rich heritage from bugles for First World War
soldiers to a Buckingham Palace coach horn
** Scientists' dismay as museum gives back aboriginal remains
The ruling sets a precedent that could ultimately see thousands of items
from the NHM's collection returned to indigenous communities for burial or
cremation
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo August 23 - September 22 - Years of sweat and toil will finally pay
off when your first novel is welcomed as a challenging and important work by
cryptographers around the world
** Artefact proves explorer's mettle
A small, 160-year-old piece of beaten and corroded metal kept wrapped in
tissue paper in a family's cash box for almost half a century has shed light
on one of Australia's greatest mysteries - the disappearance of explorer
Ludwig Leichhardt in the Australian outback
** Deep-fried American flags
A museum director in Clarksville, Tennessee, has removed an art exhibit
featuring several deep-fried American flags
** What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know?"
** English-ness: Tourist Literature: Identity Representation of England and
the English in Writing and Images
** New MCC Museum Opens
The Melbourne Cricket Club's (MCC) new museum
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