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Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
Source: BBC
Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
20 October 2018
Most of the skull from a prized 12,000-year-old fossil nicknamed Luzia has been recovered from the wreckage of a fire in Brazil's National Museum.
The 200-year-old building in Rio de Janeiro burned down in September, destroying almost all of its artefacts.
But on Friday the museum's director announced that 80% of Luzia's skull fragments had been identified.
The human remains - the oldest ever found in Latin America - were viewed as the jewel of the museum's collection.
The museum staff said they were confident they could recover the rest of Luzia's skull and attempt reassembly.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45926733
