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28/05/2017 21:38

Scientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

The common lineage of great apes and humans split several hundred thousand years earlier than hitherto assumed, according to an international research team headed by Professor Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Professor Nikolai Spassov from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The researchers investigated two fossils of Graecopithecus freybergi with state-of-the-art methods and came to the conclusion that they belong to pre-humans. Their findings, published today in two papers in the journal PLOS ONE, further indicate that the split of the human lineage occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean and not - as customarily assumed - in Africa.

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24/03/2017 00:38

Launch of International Museum Day 2017

IMD 2017: Museums as tools for creating peaceful communities

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21/03/2017 01:16

Met Museum chief quits amid expansion

NEW YORK — The head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art resigned Tuesday as the New York institution struggles to tame a budget deficit despite pulling in record crowds.

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10/10/2016 20:03

Vietnamese archaeological treasures displayed in Germany

Berlin (VNA) – The exhibition “Treasures of Vietnamese Archaeology” is running at the LWL-Museum of Archaeology in Herne city, Germany’s Nordrhein-Westfalen state, attracting some 700 visitors on its opening day.

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14/07/2016 00:52

The ICOM General Conference gathers 3,000 museum professionals from 130 countries to discuss the theme “Museums and Cultural Landscapes”

The major worldwide museums event, the 24th ICOM General Conference, from 3 to 9 July in Milan will gather 3,000 museum and heritage professionals from 130 countries to discuss the theme, Museums and cultural landscapes. In the words of ICOM President Hans- Martin Hinz “We will be delighted to welcome you for what is sure to be an exciting week of discussions and events in a country that is world-renowned for its incredibly rich and diverse cultural heritage”.

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16/06/2016 01:23

What We Owe the People of Syria

Never in recent history has the heritage of humanity known such devastation as now in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic.

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07/12/2015 13:06

ICOM makes museums' voices heard at UNESCO

On 13 November, Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine, Director General of ICOM, presented the "Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity and their Role in Society" at the 38th General Conference of UNESCO.

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12/11/2015 15:12

5th Asian National Museums Association (ANMA) Conference | Singapore

The 5th Meeting and Conference of the Asian National Museums Association (ANMA) will take place in Singapore, 25-27 November 2015, organised by Singapore’s National Heritage Board (NHB), the Culture Academy and the Asian Civilisations Museum.

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09/10/2015 14:55

Culture across Boundaries: A conference on museum challenges and possibilities

The most recent ICOM NORD conference, organised by ICOM Denmark, was held from 30 September to 1 October, 2015 in Nuuk, Greenland as a collaboration between ICOM National Committees in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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12/08/2015 21:17

Metropolitan Museum Draws Record Crowds

Buoyed by strong international tourism, a spate of well-attended shows and a seven-day-a-week schedule, the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 6.3 million visitors in the last year, the most since it began tracking these statistics more than 40 years ago.

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Vietnam National Museum of History