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week's edition include:
** The Great Pyramid may still contain Khufu's intact pharaonic tomb
In the past, although he regularly invited people to test out their bizarre
theories, pseudo-scientists have accused Hawass of hiding or covering up
secrets of the pyramids, of even building a secret passage from his office
bathroom to the Great Pyramid
** Swept Off His Feet by a Carpet
Moshe Tabibnia of Milan, one of Europe's leading carpet dealers, had seen
photos of Lot 57 on the Internet, and thought the carpet's draftsmanship was
exquisite, almost painterly
** A silly feud between aesthetes and athletes
I was taken aback with the wording on the invitation to the Arts & Business
summer party at the spanking new garden in the Victoria & Albert Museum
** Museum Curator's Trial Suspended
The closely watched trial of a curator accused of buying stolen Italian
artefacts for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was suspended Monday
until November. More
** Roaches Dressed Up for 'Hall of Fame'
What's interesting is that people are afraid of seeing cockroaches running
across their kitchen at night, but their guard drops when they see them
wearing a tutu or a bikini
** Hang ten for museum's surfing exhibition
It is the first large scale exhibition in the UK to celebrate the history,
origins and lifestyle of surfing
** Kids get creative
More than 10,000 youngsters from China and abroad have been finding that
science education can sometimes be fun, at Shanghai's largest ever Science
and Technology Exposition for Youth, held at the Shanghai Science and
Technology Museum
** Statue of Orpheus unearthed
A rare statue of the ancient Thracian hero Orpheus has been unearthed in
Bulgaria, near a place archaeologists say might house the hero's tomb
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** Vault of WWII treasure goes on show
Kit used by Flight Lieutenant Oliver Philpot, one of the three servicemen
who escaped from the notorious prison camp Stalag Luft III, was presented to
the Imperial War Museum in London by his family
** Martians Object to "War of the Worlds" Remake, Issue Ultimatum
The craft radioed an objection to UN diplomats that the aliens "deeply
resented" the recent remake of "War of the Worlds" by director Steven
Spielberg, and gave Earthlings two days to cease screening the film in the
planet's theatres.
** Exhibit Reveals Curious, Gruesome Civil War Medicine
At a cocktail reception to open "Civil War Medicine," a new exhibit at the
ever-so-curious William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, located in
the Baltimore suburbs, onlookers quietly groan as a Civil War surgeon tosses
a Union soldier's amputated arm into the piles of bloody body parts
littering the floor
** Dig unearths new theory
The discovery of 16 human skeletons about 3000 years old in Fiji provides
evidence that the country was first settled by seafarers, scientists have
said
** Cognac-Colored Australian Diamond Donated to Smithsonian
When the Australian cultural attaché toured the gem collection at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History he was perplexed by the
lack of stones from his home country
** Raiders of the lost art
Makin is, of course, perfectly entitled to draw attention to lapses in
technique among contemporary painters, but there is another way of looking
at the Dutch Masters that does not involve passing a negative judgement on
the present day
** Japan's sexual slavery focus of museum
In a bid to keep wartime sexual violence against women in people's minds,
female activists in Japan are set to open a museum in Tokyo to collect and
display materials mainly about those who were forced into sexual slavery for
the Imperial Japanese Army during the war
** Repatriation expert sues museum
A former Bishop Museum expert on repatriation says he was wrongfully
terminated in January 2004 because he refused to violate federal
requirements governing the protection and repatriation of sacred burial
artefacts
** Missing JFK artefacts arrive at library
Several artefacts from John F. Kennedy's presidency have arrived at the
Kennedy Library and Museum, including a piece of wood from the platform
believed to be where Kennedy stood while he took the oath of office in 1961
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** The foundation of the British Museum
Does the British public, or even the medical profession, fully realize that
the nation owes that magnificent institution, the British Museum, to the
liberality of a doctor?
** Experiment ends as museum chief quits
The modernising director of the Science Museum whose reforms triggered a
whispering campaign by old-guard curators has stepped down, ending one of
the most turbulent chapters in the institution's history
** 800-year-old ring is full of mystery
The precious gold and garnet band features a mysterious cryptic message,
written in olde worlde French which has archaeology experts baffled
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Museums Australia National Conference 2006 Call for Papers
** Diamonds - the gems
** Museum Civil War images featured in new exhibit at National Museum of
American History
** Have You Herd? "Tusks!" Exhibit Held Over
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