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week's edition include:
** Natural History Museum stages prehistoric family reunion
For the first time ever, all the major British remains from different Stone
Age human species are being brought together in a ground-breaking temporary
exhibition
** Nazi art' collector found to have more works at his Austria home
A further 60 pieces suspected to have been stolen or bought by the Nazis
have been found in the home of the reclusive German art collector, Cornelius
Gurlitt
** Scientists to map genome of medieval English king Richard III
A year after they revealed a twisted skeleton found under a car park as the
mortal remains of King Richard III, scientists in Britain plan to grind
samples of his ancient bones and use them to map his genome
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** Britain's National Gallery buys its first American painting
The Bellows acquisition marks a new direction for the gallery, which now
seeks to showcase paintings in the Western European tradition rather than
solely those by artists working in Western Europe
** Utah museum's chocolate exhibition tells sweet history
Starting in the tropical rainforest where cacao trees flourish, it travels
through the Mayan and Aztec cultures where the ground beans were turned into
a spicy drink, and then moves into the New World, where it became the sweet
treat we enjoy today
** Two New Portraits of Shakespeare Found
According to the German academic, one portrait, possibly painted around
1594, when the poet was about 30 years old, depicts Shakespeare as a young
London playwright and author of sonnets who has reached the first height of
his unparalleled literary career
** Bamiyan Buddha work halted over 'secret rebuilding project'
Afghanistan has halted conservation work at a site once occupied by ancient
Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban because the team involved is
suspected of secretly trying to rebuild one of the statue's feet, the United
Nations said
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** Damien Hirst admits creating art from his children's ideas
Damien Hirst has admitted that his multi-million pound artworks are often
inspired by his children's ideas as, unlike adults, they "just dive in,
throw it all around"
** Drug References Found on Walls of Ancient Egyptian School
Archaeologists working in the western desert of Egypt have discovered a
school dating back about 1,700 years that contains ancient Greek writings on
its walls, including a text about ancient drug use that references Homer's
"The Odyssey"
** Sinkhole swallows eight Corvettes at Kentucky car museum
A gaping sinkhole collapsed part of the National Corvette Museum in
Kentucky, damaging eight prized cars that plunged in a heap while the
attraction geared to the classic American sports car was closed to visitors
** Midnight at the Museum, Breakfast at the Vatican
Museums and monuments are allowing small groups of tourists to experience
their collections outside of regular admission hours, providing an intimacy
and serenity once available only to docents and V.I.P.'s
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** Sarajevo fire may have destroyed state's Ottoman archives
Some of the most important historical documents charting the history of
central Europe in the 20th century are feared lost, after a fire at the
state archives of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo
** Proposed Islamic art museum divides Venice
Centuries later, the lagoon city's attitude toward Islam appears as
undecided as ever, as evinced by reactions to a proposal to open a museum of
Islamic art in a grand palazzo on the banks of the Grand Canal
** When archaeology field techs have to teach PhDs how to do archaeology
Showing a PhD graduate how to book a hotel room and rent a car using a
credit card (Her major professor or parents had always taken care of that
for her in the past)
** Museum explores definition of cool
A few sports figures make the grade but there are no elected politicians,
nor anyone from the business world beyond Apple's co-founder, the late Steve
Jobs
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** Human footprints found in Britain are the oldest ever seen outside of
Africa
Around 50 footprints, made by members by an early species of prehistoric
humans almost a million years ago, have been revealed by coastal erosion
near the village of Happisburgh, in Norfolk, 17 miles north-east of Norwich
** Dallas Museum of Art makes a major play for painting conservation
DMA officials announced plans for the Paintings Conservation Studio last
summer, saying it would serve as a center for study and treatment of works
of art as well as research into cutting-edge conservation methodologies
** Truly Bizarre French Revolution Ephemera
And last but not least, the full version of the 1792 satirical image of an
angel playing fart-trumpet over a Jacobin funeral procession
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - Future archaeologists will find your desiccated skeleton exactly
where you starved, midway between two 64-ounce bags of Bugles
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** Norse Rune code cracked
A runologist doing his PhD research was able to discover the secret behind
the jötunvillur code, which can be found in over 80 Norse inscriptions
** Museum hopes to excavate Seattle mammoth tusk
Paleontologists from the University of Washington hope to move an ice age
mammoth tusk uncovered in a Seattle neighborhood to a museum on campus
** MoMA Will 'Preserve' Folk Art Museum Facade
Contrary to what you may have read lately, the Museum of Modern Art is
intent on carefully preserving the former American Folk Art Museum next door
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** Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in
the Ancient World
We warmly invite you to the EAGLE 2014 International Conference on
Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the
Ancient World. Hosted by EAGLE Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin
Epigraphy, École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Chaire Religion,
institutions et société de la Rome
** 7th Annual Fossil Preparation & Collections Symposium
The Natural History Museum of Utah is proud to host the 7th Annual Fossil
Preparation & Collections Symposium.
** Recent Advances in Characterizing Asian Lacquer
The Getty Conservation Institute and the Centre de Recherche et de
Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF) are pleased to announce the 2014
workshop to be hosted by C2RMF at the Louvre, July 7-11, 2014.
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