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My name is Emma. This is my blog.
Currently getting my masters in History(!)
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INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS
+ History of science
+ History and sociology of religion
+ Evolutionary psychology
OTHER STUFF I LIKE
+ Bruce Springsteen
+ The Golden Girls
+ Fresh tomatoes from the garden
+ Saving the planet
Historians and members of the public have shared photographs of their favourite exhibits from Brazil’s National Museum as they came to terms with the fire that has laid waste to the country’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum.
Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old institution was home to 20m items. It is unclear how many were destroyed in the blaze, but it is believed much of the collection has been lost in the huge fire that started on Sunday.
Among the items feared destroyed by the blaze were a Roman fresco from Pompeii that survived the Vesuvius fire, Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts, fossils, dinosaurs, a meteorite found in 1784 and the remains of a 12,000-year-old human named “Luzia”, the oldest human fossil found in Brazil.
The National Museum also held one of the best collections of indigenous literature and artefacts in the world.