Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly in more than 94 countries . Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this week's edition include: ** Museum security guard paints his way onto prize shortlist A self-taught artist who makes a living as a museum security guard has been shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious portrait award ** Ancient Peru Torture Deaths: Sacrifices or War Crimes? Forensic anthropologist John Verano of Tulane University in New Orleans has been investigating a series of grisly executions in the arid valleys of lowland Peru ** "Tome Raider" gets four years for rare books theft A British man was jailed today for systematically plundering more than one million pounds worth of rare books, some dating back four centuries, from his country's leading libraries ** 'Miracle' of 2nd century bowl saved from Taliban One of the lost treasures of the Kabul museum, a 2nd century AD stone wine bowl carved with Bacchanalian scenes of naked women & satyrs ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ Global Museum Travel: 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. 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The mobsters who brought this city to life may soon be called upon to help save its sad old downtown ** Thousands line up for reopening of Museum of Rome after 15-year renovation The Museum of Rome, housed in the magnificent Palazzo Braschi, reopened to the public this weekend after a 15-year renovation ** Sleuths recover art looted by Hitler's troops For 50 years Bernard Goodman, a London travel agent, scoured Europe for hundreds of artworks the Nazis had looted from his wealthy family ** Museum faces funding crisis The museum houses 500,000 archaeological artifacts from Native American cultures ** Museum Showcases American Antiques The National Gallery of Art has borrowed 300 rare American antiques for the summer, including six matching tankards made by silversmith Paul Revere ** Explorer who found Titanic will search for John F. Kennedy's PT-109 Robert Ballard plans to use remote cameras to find for the 80-foot, wooden-hulled patrol torpedo boat ** Iraqis demand return of their looted treasure The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, have been reduced to mounds of bare earth, ringed by scattered palm trees ** Scaly monsters scaled back in reptilian review The biggest goanna that ever lived - the seven-metre, one-tonne super predator Megalania - has been drastically shrunk, in both bulk and savagery ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW, INC. PRESENTS: "THE MAGIC OF SCIENCE - REDISCOVERING OUR SENSE OF WONDER" A BRAND NEW LECTURE FOR 2002. NOW TOURING PLANET EARTH Featuring the award-winning presentations of Kevin Barnes (a.k.a. Dr. Wilderness) in a lecture experience unlike anything you've seen. 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