{"id":1740,"date":"2018-09-03T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2018-09-03T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T06:30:07","slug":"massive-fire-tears-through-rios-200-year-old-national-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire tears through Rio&#8217;s 200-year old National Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1741\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1.jpeg 1280w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-414x276.jpeg 414w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-470x313.jpeg 470w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-640x426.jpeg 640w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-130x86.jpeg 130w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-187x124.jpeg 187w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-1-990x661.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire blazes at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 2, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Tania Dominici\/via REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) &#8211; A massive fire raced through Brazil\u2019s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia.<br \/>\nThe destruction of the building, once a palace for emperors that had fallen into disrepair, was an \u201cincalculable loss for Brazil,\u201d President Michel Temer said in a statement.<br \/>\nThere was no word of the possible cause late on Sunday, nor if there were casualties or the exact extent of damage.<br \/>\nFirefighters in Rio did not reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Live television broadcast images of the fire, which began after the end of visiting hours at 5 p.m., burning out of control throughout the building late into the night.<\/p>\n<p>The museum, which is tied to the Rio de Janeiro federal university and the education ministry, was founded in 1818. It houses several landmark collections, including Egyptian artifacts and the oldest human fossil found in Brazil.<br \/>\nThe museum had suffered from years of neglect under numerous governments, the institution\u2019s vice-director the Globo TV network on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never got anything from the federal government,\u201d said the official, Luiz Duarte. \u201cWe recently finalized an agreement with (state-run development bank) BNDES for a massive investment, so that we could finally restore the palace and, ironically, we had planned on a new fire prevention system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its website in June, BNDES agreed to financing of 21.7 million reais ($5.35 million) to \u201cphysically restore the historic building\u201d and also to carry out work to \u201cguarantee more security to its collections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Bruno Federowski and Brad Brooks; Editing by Bill Trott and Clarence Fernandez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) &#8211; A massive fire raced through Brazil\u2019s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia. 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