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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Rodin Sculpture Stolen from Buenos Aires Museum
"We don't talk about prices, it was of huge artistic worth. This is a
disaster," the museum's director Jorge Glusberg told local television
** Archaeologists Unearth Stonehenge Bodies
Archaeologists who last year unearthed the remains of a Bronze Age archer at
Stonehenge said Wednesday they have found six more bodies near the
mysterious ring of ancient monoliths
** Met Closing Islamic Galleries to Renovate
The closing of the galleries, scheduled to start Monday, comes at a time of
heightened interest in Middle Eastern culture and Islamic art due to the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the looting of objects that followed.
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** Reptiles in Jail Until Aquarium Opens
Until their new home in the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium
is done, a zoo full of snakes, reptiles and amphibians are making themselves
at home in the old county jail
** Striptease Museum Faces Cash Woes
A museum dedicated to burlesque memorabilia is struggling financially after
spending thousands of dollars to fix a string of code violations
** Everest Climbers' Tapes Found in Museum Archive
The discoveries come during the 50th anniversary week of the first
successful ascent of the 29,028ft peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa
guide Tenzing Norgay.
** Concordes go to museums
Air France will donate its fleet of five Concordes to museums when it stops
flights by the supersonic passenger jet on May 31, 2003
** Unique book goes on display
The world's oldest multiple-page book - in the lost Etruscan language - has
gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia
** This Week's Horoscopes:
Leo: (July 23-Aug. 22): Heartbreak is in the stars for you this week when
the woman of your dreams confesses she cannot love a man with such an unholy
appetite for pie.
** Museum where Holst wrote the Planets in crisis
A museum devoted to a British composer who wrote one of the best-loved works
in the concert repertory is facing a cash crisis that could force it to
close
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** Cuneiform bits become history bytes
Englund and a few graduate students in the Department of Assyriology have
undertaken an ambitious task: archiving the contents of cuneiform tablets
scattered throughout the world
** There are a million reasons to find this Liberty Head nickel
After being born of questionable, some say clandestine, circumstances, five
1913 Liberty Head nickels surfaced in the 1920s
** Bizarre 'horned' kangaroo fossils unearthed
The first complete skulls of a bizarre "horned" kangaroo are the star finds
in the cache of fossils newly unearthed from caves in the Nullarbor Plain,
Australia
** Tzar's jewel gleams again
According to Tatyana Zharkova, a spokeswoman for the Tsarskoye Selo museum,
it took 11 years just to research the room and reinvent old techniques
** Artist says British Museum does not know left from right
As international controversy rumbles on over future of the marbles, the new
bones of contention are in a shattered fragment of a 2,441-year-old arm
** Top auction houses sell looted art, claims Howells
Kim Howells, the culture minister, is accusing Britain's leading auction
houses of trading in looted antiquities and demanding that they do more to
ensure the provenance of objects they sell
** Maritime Museum eyes bold voyage to Coal Harbour
An elevator would take visitors on a simulated submersible descent to the
ocean floor off the west coast of Vancouver Island, where the sea boils as
one tectonic plate goes under the other, magma oozes up and vents give off
minerals
** Enigma Hero Relives Exploits 60 Years Later
The prize at the bottom of three vertical ladders was the unbreakable German
code machine Enigma and a set of code books that would finally enable the
British to read enemy radio traffic and turn the tide of war in the Atlantic
** Thousands of treasures said to be missing
A Unesco survey of Iraq's smashed and looted cultural treasures indicates
that 2,000 to 3,000 objects may be missing from the National Museum in
Baghdad alone and that the entire contents of the National Library are lost
beyond retrieval.
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