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** ISIS Executes Prisoners by Tying Them to Ancient Artifacts and Blowing Them Up

ISIS has managed to intensify its cruelty by devising a way to murder people and erase ancient history at the same time.

** The Telephone’s Muted Emergence

The apparatus by means of which this extraordinary feat in telegraphy is accomplished has been named by Mr. Gray the telephone, or, an instrument designed for the purpose of transmitting sound to a distance.

** National Gallery Will Collect Lego Bricks For Ai Weiwei

In response to Lego’s refusal and the overwhelming public response, Ai has now decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and ‘political art.’

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** Ancient Egypt 2.0 - project launched to scan the pyramids

An international team of experts will map monuments in Giza and Dahshur using lasers, drones, subatomic particles and infrared technology.

** Handel Museum Opens a Hendrix Half

The museum, Handel & Hendrix in London, will re-create Hendrix’s apartment as it appeared when he lived there in the late 1960s - at the height of his guitar career.

** Scientists Make Art Using Bacteria Grown In Petri Dishes

The American Society for Microbiology just wrapped up its 2015 Agar Art contest; a competition for scientists to create art using bacteria grown in petri dishes.

** The world's most valuable biscuit

One of the passengers on the Carpathia, James Fenwick, took the biscuit from one of the lifeboats and put it in an envelope that read: "Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912”.

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** How Alberto Burri Brought Power to a Humble, Everyday Fabric

Burlap—an inexpensive woven cloth made from jute or sisal—may be the best known of Burri’s materials, as he included it in many of the early works through which he established his international reputation as an artist.

** Bible museum founders may have illicit antiquities from Iraq

Federal investigators have seized more than 200 cuneiform tablets imported from Israel by the Green family.

** Field Museum Admission Hike Reflects History of Debt, Misplaced Optimism

Ultimately, the museum settled on a compromise: the original proposed Chicago resident ticket price dropped by a dollar, with the price for non-residents jumping to $22.

** Grave of ‘Griffin Warrior’ Could Be a Gateway to Civilizations

Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization.

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** Museum workers finishing up first month with no visitors

More than 40 employees of the shuttered Illinois State Museum are finishing up their first month of reporting to an empty building.

** Museum cleaner mistakenly bins 'rubbish' modern art

Cleaners at an Italian modern art museum cleaned up and threw away a new installation thinking it was rubbish – literally.

** Galapagos tortoise species ID’d from specimen in UW museum

A new species of giant Galapagos tortoise, revealed in a study conducted by scientists at Yale University, also happened to be lurking in the collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Zoological Museum, it turns out.

** MIT launches three-year collaboration with London’s Soane Museum

The collaboration will consist of seminars, workshops, and studio classes for MIT students and potential exhibitions at MIT and the Soane Museum.

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** Conquistadors sacrificed and eaten

Spanish conquistadors, women, children and horses were imprisoned for months, sacrificed and eaten by contemporaries of the Aztecs.

** No raindrop wasted: Cisterns collect water falling onto Perot Museum

The reservoirs hold a total of 55,000 gallons – enough for weeks of flushing Perot Museum toilets, depending on attendance, and watering the Texas-friendly landscaping on the museum site.

** How museums are adapting to 'selfie culture'

The museum of the future functions as seamlessly as an Apple store, makes recommendations like Amazon, speaks in hashtags, loves Tumblr and is ready for its selfie.

** Fire destroys historic trams and buses at Sydney Tramway Museum

As work begins on Sydney's new trams, a fire has destroyed a shed containing historic trams and buses at the Sydney Tramway Museum in south Sydney.

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** Cracking the Indus script

The Indus script is made up of partially pictographic signs and human and animal motifs including a puzzling 'unicorn'.

** Executive Education for Art Museum Leaders

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** CAMOC Migration Workshop

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** This Week's Horoscope

Leo - The very heavens themselves shall bestow their benevolence upon you this week, allowing you to take 15 percent off selected entrées at a popular chain of restaurants.

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