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** New Species Fills Evolutionary Gap
British scientists said on Tuesday they had identified a new species that
fills a crucial gap in the evolutionary transition from fish to land animals
about 370 million years ago
** U.S. acts to seize stolen Chinese art
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that they had taken legal action to seize
a 10th-century sculpted wall panel stolen from China that had been scheduled
to be auctioned at Christie's
** Zoo Theft
The theft of three eagles from a coastal zoo has local keepers watching over
their feathered friends.
** Feting 50 years of National Treasures Law
The enactment of the Protection of Cultural Properties Law is considered one
of the shrewdest moves the government has made to ensure that Japan's past
will live on
** Thief comes in from the code
Police have arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the theft of an
Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to send messages in code during World War
II
** Pursed lips in sound display
Visitors to one of the world's oldest musical instrument museums can now
see, hear and understand the principles of how the exhibits work, using
interactive facilities
** Picture due for dustbin is valued at £600,000
A painting that was almost thrown away by its owners has turned out to be a
lost masterpiece which is expected to fetch up to £600,000 at auction in
London
** Architects of Dome 'plagiarised spiders'
An Oxford professor has accused the architects of the Millennium Dome of
plagiarising a design created by nature millions of years ago
** Museum boss switches on to chat-room crowd
Get your audience young and you've got them for life, says the new director
of the Queensland Museum, Dr Ian Galloway
** Recovered artefacts on display
Cambodia's National Museum on Monday put on display more than 120 stone
carvings recovered in Thailand earlier this year
** Bankside Tate to be a powerhouse of modern art
Ten years ago, Bankside power station was nearly demolished. Only the
recession halted the bulldozers. .
** Smithsonian chief wants museum open at night
Lawrence M. Small, the new director of the Smithsonian Institution, said
Wednesday that if he could get enough money to do it, he would open its 16
museums and the National Zoo at night.
** London's defeat in the war of the poses
So which are you? Roundhead or Cavalier, roast beef or cassoulet, artisan
or aesthete, Tate Gallery or V&A? Museums love to throw down the gauntlets
of antithesis
** Porn from Pompeii
Seeing how much we know about Roman licentiousness, it is not surprising
that a great deal of erotic material was found in the patrician villas,
taverns, baths and brothels of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum
** Egyptologists Find New Tunnels and Chambers
The pyramid of Meidum, one of Egypt's earliest pyramids, is a complicated
structure, even by ancient Egyptian standards
** Art of Our Century
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