The Devastating Fire at Brazil’s National Museum Illuminates a Global Problem

Protecting artifacts from entropy is no easy task.

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Sep 7, 2018 · 6 min read
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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…

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