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** Syrian Refugees Are Recreating Demolished Monuments in Miniature

Using scant materials available at the refugee camp, such as discarded pieces of wood, clay and rocks, the artists are working to make sure that their history won’t disappear for good

** Trailer containing works by Matisse, Chagall stolen from industrial park

Los Angeles police art investigators said the trailer and roughly $250,000 in precious cargo, including art works by Matisse, Chagall, Miro, Haring and Neiman, were stolen

** Flyting Was Medieval England's Version Of An Insult-Trading Rap Battle

Flyting is a stylized battle of insults and wits that was practiced most actively between the fifth and 16th centuries in England and Scotland

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** Is Everyone Really an Artist?

There is so much new art in the world now there could never be a museum large enough to contain it all; How can we save all this stuff? How do we catalogue it?

** Louvre to Start Restoring Another Leonardo Painting

The restoration is scheduled to begin later this month despite past criticism that earlier makeovers of two other paintings by Leonardo overly brightened them

** Miami millionaires, the new Frost Museum of Science needs you

It’s a mess, really, as the museum faces the last leg of construction with less private support than anticipated, higher construction bills, and arbitration with the initial contractor, who was fired

** A 19th century pub argument, late-night drinking and a shooting

I thought duelling was just for the upper classes and involved being slapped in the face with a glove, but this is a story of a disagreement in a bar which ended in the death of a young man, shot dead in an illegal duel on December the 10th 1817

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** Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans

Estimates of the time of their domestication are from 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, but a recent report from an archaeological dig in Israel concluded that they were first eaten in significant numbers about 2,200 years ago

** Miró’s Studio – a hallucinatory shop window for the surrealist's later works

Now comes a new kind of European theme park for art lovers – a recreation in London of the great surrealist Joan Miró’s studio, complete with biomorphic dodgems, a political rollercoaster and mirrors that make you look like a line, a dot and a star

** 5 Awesome Tips for Taking Toddlers to Museums

Oh the things that could go wrong -- a temper tantrum on the floor of a crowded gallery, sticky fingerprints left on a delicate piece of art, any number of bodily fluids leaking onto the floor... the possibilities are endless

** Museum discovers Irish noble family's silver in collection

The majority of the Butler family's important collection of art and antiques were housed at Kilkenny Castle in southern Ireland for centuries

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** Mysterious North Korean museum opens in Cambodia

North Korea’s much-delayed museum in Cambodia, one of the reclusive state’s allies in Asia, is now open to the public, but questions as to its true purpose remain

** Female artist arrested after nude stunt at Paris museum

A female artist was arrested for indecent exposure after lying down naked in Paris's Musée d'Orsay in front of Edouard Manet's similarly nude painting of the prostitute Olympia

** Researchers confirm location of Salem witch trial hangings

The team used historical documents and modern archaeological techniques to determine that Proctor’s Ledge is where 19 people were hanged in 1692

** The Surprising (and Mostly Legal) Trade in "Mermaid Ivory"

Over the past few years, a surprisingly regular market has emerged for bones of the massive marine mammal known as the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)

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** Las Vegas museum turns hunting trophies into educational pieces

It's a common story: A person decides to move, scale back all of the stuff they've accumulated over the years and get rid of things that they're no longer as interested in, like that huge stuffed animal collection

** King Tutankhamun's wet nurse was his sister, archaeologist claims

For the first time since its discovery in 1996, the tomb of King Tutankhamun's wet nurse, Maia, has been opened to the public, and the event coincides with new claims that could prove a major revelation about the young pharaoh's inner circle

** This Banksy Mural is selling for $300,000, and It Comes with a House!

In 2014 a mural featuring 1950s-era agents listening in on a phone booth appeared on the wall of a terrace house in Cheltenham, England

** Marie-Antoinette's torrid affair with Swedish count revealed in decoded letters

French experts unravel mystery content of Marie-Antoinette’s secret love letters to a Swedish count thanks to cutting-edge imagery technology

** Spy plane disassembly begins

He has pulled apart or put together this kind of plane 14 times before, but something about the world’s fastest and highest-flying airplane still captivates him

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** Braving the Storm: Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation

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