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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Museum shows Iceman's robes this weekend
Glaciers and ice fields in northern North America have been in retreat over
the past several decades and are slowly revealing their ancient secrets
** Curators Go Online to Make New Finds
Curators nowadays are digital archaeologists, digging deep into the Internet
for a touch of humanity to warm the cold slate of history
** Pieces of history to be given away
An amateur treasure hunter who unearthed pieces of Ming and Ching-era
pottery and other artefacts wants to give them away for free
** 'Egyptian Lourdes' Found in Desert Sand
British archaeologists have discovered the "Egyptian Lourdes," a town dating
back to 2,500 B.C.
** £30m plea in the name of art
He said the system was failing because museums could not raise the money in
most cases when the asking price exceeded £1m
** Medical Exhibit Looks at Lewis & Clark
When the soldiers of the Lewis and Clark expedition were returning from the
Pacific Northwest, they started running out of goods to trade for food
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** UC historian's friends behind hoax
Drake's Plate, a small brass plate, supposedly inscribed on the shores of
San Francisco Bay with a chisel by English pirate-explorer Sir Francis Drake
in 1579, and found on a Marin hillside in 1936, was a wonderful fake
** Waxwork Beckham Takes It In The Eye
Manchester United star David Beckham has been gashed above the eye again -
this time in Hong Kong
** Restored medieval altarpiece returned to church
Britain's largest surviving medieval altarpiece has been returned to a small
rural church following an eight-year restoration project
** Police raid halts auction of Columbus ship bell
Police yesterday brought a sudden end to what was meant to be the sale of
the century for fans of Christopher Columbus when they raided a Madrid
auction to take possession of the ship's bell which allegedly rang in the
discovery of America
** Fascination with Mars documented by museum
Earthlings' timeless fascination with Mars is documented in a museum exhibit
containing everything from rare pieces of the Red Planet to Orson Welles'
notes from his pandemonium-causing "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast
** Hansel and Grendel: An Olde English fairy tale
"The next morning, the woodcutter awoke with a heavy heart, as he did every
morning, because he had a megalocardiac condition"
** Meteorite found to be 90 million years old
The meteorite is believed to be one of the oldest to have struck the Earth
in terms of the length of time it spent in space
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** Colonial Prison Turns to Museum
The floor, rough concrete, has not been treated yet but German donor
assistance is expected to take care of this
** Vending Machines Target Art Lovers
In a Philadelphia Whole Foods grocery store, an Art-o-Mat stands just inside
the front door between boxes of honeydew melons and shopping carts
** 1.8 Million-Year-Old Hominid Jaw Found
The intact fossil, which contains all its upper teeth and bones of the lower
face, is giving scientists a unique opportunity to advance theories on the
evolution of early humans
** Proper pride in our heritage
Even in this, its most expensive year to date, the fund contributed £3.9
million to help to acquire Hogarth's painting The March of the Guards to
Finchley (1749-50) for the Foundling Museum
** WA's French connection unveiled
The drawing of the wreck in Uranie Bay by Jacques Arago and Alphonse Pellion
was used by a WA Maritime Museum team in 2001 to find the ship's timbers and
survivors' camp
** EBay Urged to Drop Racist Collectibles
In May 2001, eBay began banning the sale of artifacts from Nazi Germany, the
Ku Klux Klan and notorious criminals, in hopes of avoiding legal problems in
other countries
** Graves Museum's new board says institution's founder misused, mismanaged
finances
The infighting is the latest in a string of controversies that have plagued
the institution, known for its treasure trove of artifacts
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Vanishing heritage: New Zealand's recent past in the balance. Discover
the evolution of life in the strangest corner of the planet!
** The Centennial of Flight commemoration presents tremendous learning
opportunities for people of all ages
** Creative Economies: The Handmade in America Model
** The Hunt Is On: Upland Moa Recovery Project
Call For Papers: CHAT 2003 - Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in
Theory
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