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** The top secret CIA Museum only spies can visit

Proudly on display are some of the most important historical artifacts of modern times - including the AK-47 found beside the body of Osama bin Laden and the mock-up of his Pakistan compound the agency used to plan their successful assault

** Major new exhibition reveals new discoveries about ancient lives in Egypt and Sudan

The emphasis will be on revealing different aspects of living and dying in the ancient Nile Valley through these eight individuals and also through other contextual objects from the collection such as amulets, canopic jars, musical instruments and items of food

** Giant Denman Horn goes on display at Science Museum

Today's scientists can cram tiny speakers into wafer thin televisions and tablets, and achieve outstanding quality from headphones you can put inside your ear, but more than 80 years ago one piece of sound equipment was just as revolutionary

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** Prehistoric prairie: Scientists study region's fossils through DNA

The Texas Panhandle once was home to a slew of creatures, big and small, ranging from horse-like mammals and sabre-toothed cats to the phytosaur — a giant, crocodile-like reptile that slithered in the swamps

** Mental Health Museum reopens asylum collection at NHS home in Wakefield

Coinciding with last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week, the Mental Health Museum – a collection of mental-health related objects, focusing on the former West Riding Lunatic Asylum – has opened at the NHS’s Fieldhead site in Wakefield

** Taipei antique expert finds treasure amid junk

A rare bead jacket created by the indigenous Atayal tribe is one of the most culturally significant finds to earn headlines, but Lin’s skilled eye is adept at spotting the weird and wonderful in piles of what other people view as junk

** These Photos Show WWII History Just Beneath The Surface Of Our Cities

Docherty used Google Street View to map archive photos from World War II onto today's streets, reviving life during the war years

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** Pastor Who Tried to Sell Fake Damien Hirst Paintings Is Sentenced

Starting in 2010, Mr. Sutherland, an amateur art collector, bought several forged works from Mr. Lopreto, believing them to be real, and resold them at a profit, evidence presented at the trial showed

** Egyptian mummies: Science or sacrilege?

Mummy unwrappings or "unrollings" were popular public spectacles in the early 20th century, when Egyptology was a new academic discipline

** Bangkok's Children's Museum doors finally open

Chulalongkorn University’s Chula Unisearch has offered advice on the design of exhibitions and interactive learning knowledge in order to make the most of the museum’s buildings

** Want to own a piece of a national tragedy? All you need is $20

September 11 survivors and victims' families are outraged over a gift shop attached to the new 9/11 museum in Lower Manhattan

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** Rare Compound Found on Song-Dynasty Tea Bowls

Catherine Dejoie of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology led an international team of scientists in the analysis of the chemical composition of Jian bowls, made some 1,000 years ago in China’s Fujian Province

** Museum of Bags gives humble delivery system its due

It has just about every other kind of bag we may encounter: the simple paper bag your mom puts your sandwich in, the distinctive blue bag a Tiffany salesperson hands you your fiancée’s engagement ring in, the long plastic bag The Washington Post is hurled onto your driveway in

** National Museum of Mathematics is antidote to math phobia

It is also the only math museum in the United States, where students’ poor performance on international tests has inspired much hand-wringing among politicians and educators

** Museum of Toilets in Delhi ranked 3rd weirdest museum by Time

The Delhi-based museum, which traces the history of the lavatories of the past 4,500 years, figured in the list released by the publication on the occasion of the International Museum Day

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** Museum’s unsung heroes

Looking through a microscope, a researcher in a blue gown is poised to tackle a thumb-size, heavily corroded metal object with what appears to be a medical scalpel

Count of US Museums Revised, Doubling Old Estimate

The agency responsible for providing federal funding to museums issued a count Monday of 35,144 museums nationwide; that's compared to an estimate of 17,500 museums in the 1990s

Exploring the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes

The Museum of London has announced an exhibition devoted to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian detective, featuring everything from hand-written manuscripts to the coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC series "Sherlock"

New York museum shuts doors on Attica artifacts

Museum officials have chosen to temporarily restrict access to the artifacts, a decision that has angered riot survivors and the families of those slain at the maximum-security prison in Wyoming County, N.Y.

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** Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal

There was just enough change in the climate to upset food resources and other infrastructure, which is likely what led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire and affected the Old Kingdom of Egypt and a number of other civilizations

** This Week's Horoscopes

Virgo - Mercury rising in your sign indicates that things are getting hotter, as the mercury has expanded, causing it to rise up the thermometer

** Museum Interpreters Breathing Life Into History

Mr. Brinkley is one of many older adults who have found a home, and in some cases a second career, in the past, as historical interpreters at living history museums or as docents at historic houses

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** At Home in British India

We are delighted to have well-known historian, conservationist and author, Dr James Broadbent, curate the next Fairhall house-museum tour from July to October 2014.

** Beuys Brock Vostell

May 24–November 9, 2014

** 'On the Rocks'

10th International Symposium on Knappable Materials

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