The Devastating Fire at Brazil’s National Museum Illuminates a Global Problem
Protecting artifacts from entropy is no easy task.
Sep 7, 2018 · 6 min read

By Eleanor Cummins
A 12,000-year-old skull, one of the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere. Macaw feathers fashioned by the Inca into wedding attire. And a Chilean mummy found high and dry in the Atacama desert…


