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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Fragment of scandalous fresco comes to light
A mystery that has tantalised art scholars for centuries moved closer to
resolution today when part of a scandalous Renaissance fresco came to light
after almost 400 years
** Ancient City Goes High-Tech With IBM Gear
The type of technology that allows gamers to interact online will soon merge
real and virtual space for people visiting China's Palace Museum and those
who cannot travel to the actual site
** Could Victory be ship in a bubble?
Naval historians have floated the idea as a way of protecting HMS Victory
against its deadliest enemy - the weather
** Tomb raider leads Italian police to ancient paintings
Italy's culture minister took reporters to an unremarkable field outside
Rome under which they were shown a room carved into the hillside, decorated
with colourful frescoes which archaeologists said were 2,700 years old
** Dayan Is Accused in Antiquities Plunder
Stunning military victories made Israeli general Moshe Dayan an iconic
figure on the international stage, but his reputation for looting
antiquities is little known outside the country where his myth was born
** Unsmiling Mona Lisa look-alike draws the crowds
Pigment analyses of the painting La Gioconda show it was created before 1510
and that its brush strokes were probably by a left-handed painter like
Leonardo da Vinci
** Smithsonian Removes Electric-Car Exhibit
Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car
from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric
sedan from display
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** To protect the treasures, museums find a little detective work pays
Holmquist-Wahl's subsequent legwork helped fill in the gaps of the
painting's history, including how it was hidden away in an Austrian salt
mine while in the Nazis' grasp
** No charge for smashed vase man
The man arrested after he tripped and smashed three 17th Century Qing
dynasty porcelain vases at a Cambridge museum will not face any criminal
charges
** Smithsonian leader faces scrutiny over salaries, film contract
Key lawmakers are turning up the heat on Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence
Small over his management of the institution, raising questions over salary
issues and Small's judgment in signing a 30-year contract with the Showtime
Network to produce Smithsonian films
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - September 23 to October 23 - You will stumble upon an incredible
found-art object this week moments after Rembrandt's "Portrait Of Nicolas
Ruts" is mistakenly thrown out in a nearby dumpster
** Furniture of Glass
One of the least known chapters in design history is the story of antique
glass furniture, which seems to have become fashionable in the 18th century,
during the reign of Catherine the Great of Russia
** Vietnam life shown in French museum
Quai Branly Museum in Paris will open on June 20, 2006 with the presentation
of objects from Vietnam in the museum's collection. Museum of exotic art
panned for being 'racist'
** Getty museum finds 350 antiquities bought from suspect dealers
The museum has not shown the review to Italian authorities, potentially
complicating talks resuming in Rome between the trust and Italy's culture
ministry over the 52 contested items
** In Egypt, the Pharaohs' outspoken defender kicks up a dust storm
Critics decried the event as more of a media circus than science, and Hawass
later docked the pay of a Supreme Council member who criticized the
re-creation of Tut's face, disputing the computer image's Caucasian look
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** Oklahoma Gun Museum Upgrading After Firearms Thefts
A string of firearms disappearances from a gun museum here may go back
nearly 40 years, a prosecutor says
** First photos obtained of 'living fossil' in Laos
The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought
to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired
Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist
** U.S. treasure hunter sues Malaysia for alleged seizure of relics
An American woman has filed a US$44 million suit against the Malaysian
government after customs officials seized relics belonging to her
treasure-hunter husband
** Atlanta museum to reunite Venus statue with its head
For the first time in possibly 170 years, a Roman marble statue of Venus
will be reunited with its head
** A Storied Life: The Apocryphal Biography and Autobiography
** Works of Genius: I.K. Brunel's Engineering Achievements and Their Legacy
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