Global Museum, your award-winning webzine read in more than 82 countries each week. FREE online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines this week (for the full story visit the webzine) include: ** Seahenge may be buried One of the most important Bronze Age sites to be excavated in Europe in recent years is likely to be reburied to preserve it for future generations ** Swedish police arrest 4 in museum theft Police have arrested four men in the theft of three Renoir and Rembrandt paintings from Stockholm's waterfront National Museum, but the precious art works remain missing ** Rodent mummies found in Egyptian tombs A cemetery of mummified animals, which experts say could shed new light on ancient Egypt's religious beliefs, has been discovered by archaeologists at Abydos, southern Egypt ** Monolith Vanishes Mysteriously, as It Arrived Dawn of the new year, 2001: A mysterious steel monolith appears on a windswept hilltop in a public park ** Rare Temple Mount lintel neglected by Antiquities Authority A carved marble lintel dug out of the Temple Mount rubbish last year and identified as part of a gate to the Temple itself has been tossed carelessly in the back yard of the Antiquities Authority ** The smelly secret of Halitosaurus Rex Tyrannosaurus Rex, king of the dinosaurs, suffered from an embarrassing affliction - he had appalling bad breath ** A drowned ship with a million artifacts When La Salle realized that Matagorda Bay was not the mouth of the Mississippi, he set off on several eastward expeditions overland to find the great river ____________________________________________________________________________ __ NEW GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL DESTINATION GUIDES Direct URL: http://content.travelnow.com/home.asp?cid=1527 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Designer's offbeat furniture sells for thousands today A designer of some of the more unusual pieces was Paul Evans. He was a sculptor who made one-of-a-kind furniture from steel, bronze and wood ** Nazi looting saved art from bombings, gallery director says Ian Lumsden, executive director of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, says "it's not the worst thing in the world" that some art works stolen from European Jews have ended up in galleries and museums around the world ** A museum far from the madding crowds Saturday evening, a host of the city's glitterati and chatterati landed at some place away from Hosur and looked visibly puzzled as to why they had come there ** Museum Shows Holocaust Treasure If "The Diary of Anne Frank" is the most poignant document of the Holocaust era, then Charlotte Salomon's "Life? Or Theater?" an illustrated semi-biographical narrative, runs a close second ** Three Gorges Museum Under Construction The museum consists of several galleries featuring the natural history and culture of the Three Gorges area, relics unearthed in the Three Gorges area, the history and culture of Chongqing, and arts and folkways ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ADVERTISEMENT: " I DISCOVERED THE TRAVEL SERVICE BY ACCIDENT. I USED IT TO FIND A HOTEL ROOM IN LOS ANGELES, AND BOOKED ONE, AT A GOOD PRICE TOO! THANKS." D.S. Montreat Rail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals.. We provide competitive rates for more than 40,000 hotels in 5,000 cities and 140 countries. Global Museum Travel offers discounts of up to 65% on over 700 hotels in almost every major city and up to 40% on over 7,000 hotels around the world. Direct URL: http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel.html ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Mysteries of the Mounds Almost 1000 years ago, Ocmulgee became one of the first large ceremonial centers of an ancient civilization. Feature Video ** Selections of American Folk Art Offered in Sotheby's Auction Among the highlights from the various-owner sale are three drawings by legendary Alabama folk artist Bill Traylor, two carved and painted cigar store Indian figures, a rare Baltimore album quilt and examples of 18th-century embroidery ** A Window's Journey Tucked away under tight security in one of the attics of the State Hermitage Museum is a rare 14th-century German stained-glass window ** £200,000 for church silver The Holy Trinity Church in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, is to sell its 17th-century silver, worth almost £200,000, to the National Museum of Scotland ** Sue, Dead Sea Scrolls Credited Field Museum attendance for the year 2000 was 2,360,223 -- an increase of 58 percent over 1999's total of 1,497,026 ** Unusual Web sites: Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum Barney has been creating these works of art for 30 years and now has over 510 differently decorated Toilet Seats ** Curator's Departure Rocks Terra According to court papers filed Tuesday by Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan's office, Neff was "terminated" because of his internal memos criticizing Terra Foundation for the Arts board member Ted Stebbins for what he characterized as Stebbins' inappropriate conduct in acquiring art for the museum ** Mammals' Tooth Characteristics Evolved on Two Continents The specialized teeth that enabled ancient, shrew-like creatures to flourish and gave rise to all modern mammals evolved independently in two animal groups living continents apart, researchers from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History report ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** CALL FOR PAPERS and TUTORIALS: ichim2001 ** AKHENATEN: Beautiful Child of the Sun Disc ** The American Association for State and Local History "Not Your Ordinary Workshop Series" ** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th WSES/IEEE WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers (CSCC 2001) ** New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference 2001 ** News of the upcoming Summit 2001 - Dissolving Distance +++++PLUS+++++ Chat in real time, the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, Hot JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, MALL, Museum Accredited Courses, a Health Store, Toy Store, Trade & Exchange, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium ALL FREE AND AVAILABLE AT http://www.globalmuseum.org THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL WEBZINE - Share the address with a friend ! 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