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In your free Museum EZINE this week

**Civilization Lost And Found
 The ancient Mayan tools of human sacrifice and bloodletting are shockingly
exquisite

**Letter in bottle for museum
 A soldier's message in a bottle will take pride of place at the museum of
the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry.

**Scott relics sale angers families of the dead
 Descendants of Antarctic explorers are dismayed that rich collections of
items from the Scott and Shackleton expeditions are to be auctioned at
Christie's ..

**Cambodia museum hung up over bats in the belfry
Cambodia's National Museum is trying to drive bats from the belfry and keep
droppings off the exhibits, but the directors are at a loss at how to do it.

**King Alfred 'built new London'
King Alfred was much better at town planning than at baking cakes, according
to an exhibition at the Museum of London

**Big Boned
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, is now the proud owner of a
partial skull from the largest ichthyosaur ever found

**Smithsonian Given Historic Asian Art Trove
A world class collection of ancient Chinese artifacts, which once filled a
small apartment in New Jersey, has been donated to a premier Asian art
museum in Washington.

**Massachusetts town can't cash in on Monet - Judge   Campbell
The gritty mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts lost its first court battle
against Boston's Museum of Fine Arts over a multimillion-dollar art
collection that includes Claude Monet's ``Field of Poppies Near Giverny.''

**Hungarian Jews deplore Auschwitz exhibition
Hungary's leading Jewish organisation complained on Wednesday that a
Hungarian exhibition prepared for Auschwitz had ``barely concealed
anti-Semitic undertones'' and should be changed. .

**Dark Paris eatery offers taste of blindness
In an old Paris street lined with food stalls and restaurants, the curious
and the brave have been piling into a rented basement all summer to sit
through a three- course meal in the pitch dark

**Retiring P&G chairman to help raise money for underground railroad museum
John Pepper, who is retiring as chairman of Procter & Gamble Co. Wednesday,
said his next endeavor is to be a fund-raiser for the National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center

**Madagascar Fossil 165 Million Years Old
Tiny teeth from a prehistoric animal found in a jawbone in Madagascar are
the oldest yet uncovered along the mammal family tree branch that led to
most modern mammals

**Mexico's Innovative tax Plan

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