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week's edition include:
** Missing Roman goblet baffles museum
Archivists at the British Museum are scratching their heads after learning
that the biggest hoard of Roman treasure ever found in Britain comprised 35
pieces - not 34
** $1.2 Million for Damaged Rembrandt
The Pushkin Museum of Art will receive $1.2 million in compensation from
insurers for damages suffered by a Rembrandt painting
** Beijing to protect and spruce up Peking Man caves
Future visitors to the archaeological site where the Peking Man was
discovered will have the 2008 Olympic Games to thank for what they see.
** Guggenheim scraps expansion plans
The 40 to 45-storey structure would have overlooked the East River in lower
Manhattan
** Researchers successfully raise obelisk with kite to test theory about
ancient pyramids
The task may have been accomplished by just four or five guys who flew the
stones into place with a kite
** Medieval ship excavated from river bank
Archaeologists excavating a medieval ship older than the Mary Rose have
finally finished the painstaking task of removing it piece by piece from a
muddy bank
** New Centre to Display Wordsworth Collection
Hitherto undisplayed memorabilia from the life of poet William Wordsworth
will shortly be on public view
** Giant sea fossil unearthed
A complete skeleton of the biggest reptile that ever existed has been
unearthed in Mexico
** Ancient loos under threat
Archaeologists have expressed surprise at finding a complex medieval toilet
system during a dig at a shopping centre redevelopment site
** Historic artefacts destroyed in Japanese fire
Some 70,000 historic artefacts, including the world's oldest pieces of
lacquer, were destroyed in a fire at a research office
** California Museum Showcases Lavish Medieval Books
A best selling book from the Middle Ages is again drawing crowds at the
Getty Museum in Los Angeles
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** Chinese Museum Loses Copyright Lawsuit
In a triumph for China's capitalist ambitions over its leftist history, the
country's revolutionary museum has lost a copyright lawsuit over a painting
of communist founder Mao Zedong
** When technology turns against itself
To underline the importance of this unwelcome variable to modern society,
Virilio is promoting the creation of a Museum of Accidents
** Unique Archive 'May Give Global Warming Clues'
The extensive collection of world-wide tidal records - spanning more than a
century - has been donated to the Liverpool Museum
** Museum probe far too soon: historian
In an internal memo, Mr Barnett said the stolen children exhibit was a
"victim episode" and the museum honoured bushrangers and protesters instead
of nation-builders. SEE ALSO
** Fine treasures beneath our feet
East Anglia has been shown to have the richest soil in the country with four
of the all-time greatest treasures having been discovered in the region
** Over 100,000 seek out Aztec treasures
A collection of Aztec treasures has proved to be one of the most popular
exhibitions ever staged in Britain
** Te Papa loses bid to force psych test
The Museum of New Zealand has lost a bid to force an independent psychiatric
examination of a former curator who claims she was forced to leave her job
because of stress
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** German hermit whose sculptures were fouled by oil spill dies
A German hermit whose sculptures were blackened by the massive oil spill
that has tarred most of Spain's north-western coastline, was found dead in
his tiny hut
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