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week's edition include:
** Wishing you all Happy New Year
It's the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Horse, so we wish all of our
readers who celebrate this festival happiness & prosperity for the year
ahead
** Amateur treasure hunters uncovered more than 73,000 archaeological finds
in 2013
A rare hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins that sheds light on a king executed by the
Vikings and one of the few Roman balsamariums ever discovered in Britain,
are among the latest finds to have been unearthed by amateur treasure
hunters and metal detector enthusiasts
** Oxford University Museum of Natural History prepares to reopen after
"long, dark year"
The neo-Gothic home of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History,
established in 1860 but closed since 2012 for a roofing job of immense
complexity, will reopen with live bugs and bands next month, ending a
14-month restoration with "spotlight specimens" and newly-conserved whale
skeletons
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** 9/11 Museum sets admission price at $24
It just doesn't feel right that someone has put a price tag - a high one, at
that - on a museum charged with interpreting one of the few genuinely
national traumas of our time
** Seashells inspire new way to preserve bones for archaeologists
Using skeletal fragments from the Late Middle Ages, they grew aragonite, a
kind of lime that some sea animals produce to shore up their shells, on the
bones in a controlled way
** Delta's last DC-9 retires at Charlotte museum
Built in 1979, the aircraft is the latest addition to the growing fleet at
the museum, which includes the fuselage of the "Miracle on the Hudson"
jetliner that ditched five years ago without any loss of life to the 155
aboard
** Museum Transforms Entire Floor Into The Interior Of A Spaceship
In an ambitious presentation titled "Report on the Construction of a
Spaceship Module," the museum will transform its entire fifth floor into the
interior of a spaceship reminiscent of the Ikarie
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** The 19 Types of Selfies at Museum Selfie Day
#MuseumSelfieDay is an idea aimed to make museums both less haughty and more
physical, as it would encourage a particular type of bending and darting to
see the art around people's posturin' and posin'
** King Alfred The Great's Pelvic Bone May Have Been Discovered In Museum
Storage Box
A piece of an ancient pelvis bone that had been tucked away in museum
storage might belong to the English King Alfred the Great or his son Edward
** Lions and donkeys: 10 big myths about World War One debunked
No war in history attracts more controversy and myth than World War One; for
the soldiers who fought it was in some ways better than previous conflicts,
and in some ways worse
** Carthaginians sacrificed own children, archaeologists say
Just as ancient Greek and Roman propagandists insisted, the Carthaginians
did kill their own infant children, burying them with sacrificed animals and
ritual inscriptions in special cemeteries to give thanks for favours from
the gods, according to a new study
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** What caused a 10-year winter starting in 536?
That year and the decade following were also times of great famine, plague
and war - possibly connected to the devastating harvests that left many
people hungry, angry, and wandering in search of more fertile lands
** Museum of the Rockies T. rex to arrive at Smithsonian in April
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton bound for the Smithsonian Institution is set to
arrive in Washington in April as a new home is built for the specimen on the
National Mall
** British Museum puts its Pacific artefacts online
The British Museum's Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian collections
include every conceivable item from a geographic range stretching from
Indonesia's provinces in Papua in the west to Rapanui (Easter Island) in the
east
** Iconic Spruce Goose is safe
This thing is arguably the world's most famous airplane and - at five
stories tall with a wingspan longer than a football field - one of the
biggest on the planet
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** Museum Battles Humidity Problems
Too much or too little moisture could mean big problems for a museum housing
priceless items; it's a problem Peoria's Riverfront Museum has been battling
for months
** Chinese incense burner returned to Harvard museum 35 years after it
disappeared
Ernest Dane, a businessman and art collector who graduated from Harvard
University in 1892, and his wife, Helen Pratt Dane, donated the Qing Dynasty
jade censer to the Fogg Museum in 1942
** Museum samples give insight into cholera
A shriveled piece of intestine is all that remains of the unfortunate soul
who died in Philadelphia's 1849 outbreak of cholera and researchers do not
even know his name
** One careless Roman.. one Norfolk wonder find
You don't expect a children's sock to have an emotional wallop; its so
perfect and colourful that it looks like it was knitted last week by a
loving grandma but incredibly, the child who wore it lived and died perhaps
1,800 years ago
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - Either the whole thing is just one big coincidence, or they
named a deadly species of blood-sucking parasite after you for a reason
** Archaeology helping to unravel mysteries of ancient Japanese
Research is also being done on the eating habits of ancient Japanese by
analyzing amino acids taken from human remains and animals excavated at
archaeological sites
** Looted Iraqi museum hopes to reopen, minus many relics
A decade on from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and
whipped up a tsunami of theft in Baghdad, Iraq's National Museum is
preparing to display its treasures of Mesopotamian culture - even if
thousands are missing
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** ˇEscultura!
The University of San Francisco (USF) and The Mexican Museum are partnering
to present ˇEscultura!, a collection of metal sculptures by renowned Latino
and Mexican artists
** Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
The MUA is proud to announce that it will once again help support the
upcoming Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage to
be held in Honolulu, Hawaii this May
** Envisioning China
The University of Chicago announces the Chicago premiere of Chinese opera
star Ling Ke and members of the Tianjin Peking Opera Company on April 12 and
13, 2014, as a highlight of its campus-wide Envisioning China: A Festival of
Arts and Culture
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