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thisweek's edition include:

**  Who invented football? Hamburg museum seeks answer
As Germany gears up for this month's World Cup, the "Fascination Football" 
exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology seeks the answer to this 
question by tracing the roots of the modern game back thousands of years

**  Precious artefacts vanish from Zimbabwe museum
The state-controlled Herald newspaper quoted unnamed sources at the museum 
saying that senior staff members at the museum might have been behind the 
thefts because they "really appreciated the value of the artefacts."

**  New Technology Probes Ancient Manuscript
The burnt remains of a 2,400-year-old scroll buried with an ancient Greek 
nobleman may help unlock the secrets of early monotheistic religion - using 
new digital technology

**  Drought rewrites where and when bison roamed
The receding waters pulled back the curtain on a violent tableau from 2,400 
years ago - an archaeological wonder that is forcing historians to rethink 
the history of woodland Indians and biologists to rethink their 
understanding of one of North America's most iconic beasts

**  Digging up royal secrets
The Queen has agreed to a "cunning plan" by the former Blackadder star to 
search for ancient royal treasures in the gardens of her official Scottish 
home

**  Glass artist sues ex-student
A $1 million lawsuit filed by glass artist Dale Chihuly against a former 
associate and another glass artist and broker could test the boundaries of 
artistic copyright
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**  Reporter returns painting looted in World War Two
A small 16th-century Florentine painting looted from a German museum during 
World War Two and given to a reporter as a "wedding gift" in 1952 has been 
returned to its rightful owner

**  Constable suffers in Tate's showroom glare
Scared of being nationalist, or conservative, not quite believing in the art 
of which it is custodian, this museum desperately offers populist and 
contemporary "ways in" for the visitor

**  Recently Unearthed E-Mail Reveals What Life Was Like In 1995
A 1995 e-mail extracted from the hard drive of a recently unearthed Compaq 
desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a 
primitive Internet society, said the archaeologists responsible for its 
discovery

**  Roosevelt's pistol recovered, 16 years after theft
A pistol that Teddy Roosevelt carried during the Spanish-American War has 
apparently been recovered, 16 years after it was stolen from a museum on 
Long Island

**  New museum explores German identity
The globe Adolf Hitler gazed upon while contemplating world domination is in 
remarkably good condition but for one blemish, the bullet hole directly 
through Berlin, inflicted by a Soviet soldier after the Nazi dictator's 
defeat in 1945

**  Authenticity of Monroe Exhibit Challenged
A lawsuit claims that Marilyn Monroe had no connection to many of the items 
in an exhibit that claims to showcase her possessions
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**  Museum worker from Britain stabbed to death in Denmark
The victim, who has not been named, was from the Birmingham area and had 
been in Copenhagen for a few days, helping set up an exhibition in a 
military museum.

**  Eccentric tycoon and his collections
I once worked in the Mammal Department of the British Museum and was told 
that, in his later years Ellerman lived on one of his transatlantic liners, 
sailing endlessly back and forth across the Atlantic and dining alone in his 
private cabin while opposite him sat a blow-up rubber woman

**  Rome's first lady appears after 3000 years
The woman, dubbed "Queen of the Latins" or "The Lady of the Forum", was 
buried with a beautiful amber necklace, bronze brooches and a ring-shaped 
bronze ornament to hold her hair

**  Hecht Says Competition Precludes Checks
An American art dealer accused by Italy of trafficking stolen antiquities 
said he has little incentive to check how artefacts are acquired because of 
competitive pressure

**  New twist in 'hobbit' human story
The "Hobbit"-like human was smart enough to make stone tools despite its 
small brain, according to research

**  Uri Geller's Elvis museum plan dealt setback
Uri Geller's dream of turning the first home Elvis Presley owned into a 
museum dedicated to the paranormal has been dealt a setback nearly as 
bizarre as the spoon-bending trick that made the Israeli-born psychic famous

**  Aid to Help Beleaguered Museums and Libraries
Laura Bush Announces $1.5 Million in Aid from Institute of Museum and 
Library Services

**  Love and War: The Weaponized Woman

**  Cartographic Survey of Historic Buildings

**  On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag

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