Lucy
The Houston Museum of Natural Science continues to work on plans to bring the famous "Lucy" fossil to Houston:
The first-ever public display of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil discovered in Ethiopia, is scheduled for Houston in 2006, to the chagrin of some anthropologists who fear the project will harm the partial skeleton.
Fossil remains of Australopithecus afarensi, known as Lucy, are displayed April 7 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The most complete fossilized skeleton ever recovered, Lucy is estimated to be 3.2 million years old.
Click photo for larger image.Ethiopia, the east African country where Lucy is stored in a museum safe, hopes to encourage tourism and investment by offering the treasure to the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
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The Houston museum would be responsible for organizing a possible four-year U.S. tour for Lucy once the final details of a memorandum of understanding are worked out and the agreement finalized with Ethiopia's Tourism Commission.
Other stops could include New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles.
"It is a dream for the entire museum," said Dirk Van Tuerenhout, curator of anthropology at the Houston museum. "But for the department, the field of anthropology, it is like the Holy Grail coming over."
The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming in October.
Things like this -- and not a crash-prone, poorly designed choo choo -- are what make Houston world-class.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/30/04 20:53 | Houston | Technorati
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I can't wait to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. World-class indeed!
Posted by Anne @ 12:42 on 08/31/04
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