A massive fire engulfed Brazil’s largest history and science museum, home to a collection of 20 million items including the Americas’ oldest human fossil, Egyptian…
A massive fire engulfed Brazil’s largest history and science museum, home to a collection of 20 million items including the Americas’ oldest human fossil, Egyptian mummies, archaeological pottery, gigantic tropical beetles and much more.
As firefighters in Rio de Janeiro were going through the burned remains of the Quinta da Boa Vista National Museum on Monday, it seemed unlikely that Luzia—a skeleton that is at least 10,000 years old and that was found in Brazil in 1975—survived the fire. Hundreds if not thousands of other…
