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5 September 2018 Issue 112
Brazil National Museum destroyed in fire A major fire has destroyed Brazil's 200-year-old national museum, with officials blaming a lack of funding for what has been described as an 'incalculable' loss of historical items. There had been a number of complaints about the condition of the centuriesold museum, with its director saying it never had "adequate support", while for years, safety experts had warned of a serious fire risk to the building. No one was hurt in the blaze but the vast majority of the insitution's 20 million items were destroyed. Among these artefacts, the museum was home to "Luzia", a 12,000-year-old
■■Close to 20 million items were
skeleton of a woman, the oldest human
lost in the devastating fire
remains ever found in the Americas. Other galleries were dedicated to
fire could have been started by a small
artefacts from Egypt. The museum also
paper hot air balloon landing on the roof.
housed a large European art collection
“It's an unimaginable disaster," said
and a palaeontology department.
museum vice-director, Luiz Duarte. "We've
The cause of the blaze has not yet been confirmed, but it's been reported the
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