The Great London [01/23/17] 

  • Great Legacy: Egypt launches appeal to buy back Sekhemka statue

    Egypt's antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty launched on Saturday a fund raising campaign to re-buy the 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhemka, which was sold by a UK museum.The statue of Sekhemka, a royal chief, judge and administrator, shows him reading a scroll and would have been placed in his tomb [Credit: Christi…

  • Namibia: Study provides strongest evidence oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution

    It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, complex animals suddenly started to appear on Earth. Now, a team of researchers has put forward some of the strongest evidence yet to support the hypothesis that high levels of oxygen in the oceans were crucial for the emergence of skelet…

  • UK: More than one in ten UK species threatened with extinction

    Some of the UK's leading nature experts have delivered a clarion call for action to help save many of the nation's native wildlife species from extinction.Climate change, urban expansion and agricultural intensification blamed for risk to some of Britain's best loved species [Credit Philip Braude]A critical new report, called >Sta…

  1. More Stuff: Italy displays stolen artworks recovered by police
  2. "Uruk: 5000 Years of the Megacity" at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin
  3. Museum may find home for Medieval treasure
  4. Historical museum features exhibit on indigenous Mississippians
  5. British museums compete for treasure