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week's edition include:
** King Tut's Sister Stolen in Massive Museum Heist
UNESCO and Interpol are working with Egyptian authorities to recover the
priceless artifact, a limestone figurine of the young pharaoh's sister from
the 14th century BC
** Appeal to to keep Napoleon Bonaparte death mask
The original mask is believed to have been made either by Italian physician
Francois Antommarchi or British surgeon Francis Burton, who were both
present at the death of Napoleon on the south Atlantic island of St Helena
on May 5, 1821
** Coral: Something Rich and Strange
From models of sea anemones from the 18th century to a Rossetti painting
made 145 years ago, in which a young girl wears a necklace sculpted from
material found beneath the waves, Manchester Museum's sub-oceanic exhibition
weaves through art history and science via the magic of coral
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** Sheets like metal - Dylan tries hand at welding in new art venture
The imposing metal works, made over three years by welding together items
such as wrenches, a meat grinder, a rollerskate and other scrap metal,
appears chaotic at first glance
** 1st-Century Roots of 'Little Red Riding Hood' Found
Tehrani used phylogenetic models - or models that probe the evolutionary
relationships among species through time - to compare similarities between
these plot variables and determine the probability that they came from the
same source
** Pottery Provides Earliest Evidence of Chili Pepper Use in Mexico
A team of archaeologists from the United States and Mexico has detected
chili pepper residues in over 2,000-year-old pottery samples unearthed at
the site of Chiapa de Corzo in southern Mexico
** Old Dog, New Origin: First Pooches Were European
Man's best friend gained that title in Europe, according to a new study that
pinpoints the origin of dog domestication to between 18,800 and 32,100 years
ago
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** Germany begins publishing works found in Nazi art stash
The government has been heavily criticized - notably by families whose
relatives were robbed by the Nazis - for keeping silent for almost two years
about the trove of 1,406 European art works until a German magazine broke
the story
** Why did a Virginia museum open a new exhibit in its restrooms?
The museum collections and programs chief submitted a proposal that began:
"There is a certain experience that cuts across time, space, age and
ethnicity, though not necessarily across genders"
** NY Court Says Gold Tablet Belongs to German Museum
The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I,
was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple
in what's now northern Iraq
** Bidders Cry Foul Over Auction of Banksy Painting
The auction was a seeming good deed, capping Banksy's monthlong residency in
New York, during which the anonymous British artist led fans and detractors
alike in a hunt around the city to spot his street art
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** Museum Aims to Capture Sights and Sounds of Old Beijing
The first museum dedicated to hutong life and siheyuan - the courtyard homes
that when joined side by side comprise a hutong-it is set inside the
recently renovated Shijia Hutong No. 24, just east of the Forbidden City
** Who'd Import Pigs to Israel? Ancient Europeans
Israel may not be the most obvious place to study pigs, given that religious
strictures in both Judaism and Islam forbid their consumption
** Lice Reveal Clues to Human Evolution
Lice have been closely associated with humans for millennia; in spite of
human attempts to get rid of the parasites, their persistence has made them
a potential reservoir of information for those who want to know more about
human evolution and history
** Necklace made from 3 billion year old fossil goes on show
A necklace that has been more than 3 billion years in the making has gone on
display at the Wellcome Collection as part of a new exhibition using art to
look at global health issues
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** In Detroit, a Case of Selling Art and Selling Out
In that ever-lengthening narrative titled When Bad Things Happen to Good
Museums, few developments are as deeply alarming and as cluelessly
self-destructive as the recent suggestion that the City of Detroit, which
owns the institute's building and its collection, should sell some of the
art to help cover about $18 billion of municipal debts
** US museum makes push in 3D imaging of artifacts
With most of its 137 million objects kept behind the scenes or in a faraway
museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex, is
launching a new 3D scanning and printing initiative to make more of its
massive collection accessible to schools, researchers and the public
worldwide
** Bad taxidermy is the perfect mix of hilarious and terrifying
Anyway, there exists in this world some seriously horrifying(ly hilarious)
creations made from dead bodies; feast your eyes upon these beauties
** Museum, Remodeled
Worcester's attendance in the galleries in fiscal 2011 was a pitiful 31,435;
the museum's donor base had shriveled along with the city's manufacturing
sector; the museum, down to two curators, had little capacity to organize
special exhibitions; staff was working four-day weeks to save money; and the
museum's location, only 45 miles from Boston's bigger, richer Museum of Fine
Arts, added to the challenge
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** Scientists Theorize Sun Could Support Fire-Based Life
After extensive research, we have reason to believe that the sun may be
habitable for fire-based life, including primitive single-flame microbes and
more complex ember-like organisms capable of thriving under all manner of
burning conditions (satire)
** 1,500-year-old Roman gold coin found at ancient Chinese tomb
The gold coin from the East Roman era was found in the course of excavating
a large tomb at Huangshan in Luoyang`s Jianxi district
** There Was a Chinatown Here: Objects and Stories from Downtown San Jose
The Market Street Chinatown included about twenty tenement (apartment)
buildings; dozens of stores; several restaurants and gambling houses;
businesses such as barbers, butchers, employment offices, scribes,
pharmacists, and doctors; and small-scale workshops producing boots, cigars,
dry goods, carriages, and furniture
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** Textiles of Laos & Cambodia: Traditions & Transitions Study Tour
This small-group tour, specially organized for the Textile Society of
America, will involve ten days of exploring the vibrant textile traditions
of Laos and Cambodia in cultural context-past and present.
** The 47th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Will be held in Québec City, Canada from will be held in Québec City,
Canada.
** Focusing on Photographs: Identification & Preservation
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
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