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Forgotten Letter #799 by James Andrew Crosby

favorite characters ≡ Captain Raymond Holt

Me, watching it zoom out: OH SHIT

Me watching it get to the full picture:

Brazil’s oldest and most important museum, The Museu Nacional, is consumed by fire

The museum held a priceless collection. 20 million objects, Egyptian mummies, Greco-Roman artworks, dinosaur fossils and the oldest human fossil in the region, may have been destroyed in the fire that started on September 3rd 2018. “It was the biggest natural history museum in Latin America. We have collections that are over 100 years old” said Cristiana Serejo, one of the museum’s vice directors.

The loss is already being compared to that of the library of Alexandria. According to anthropologist Mércio Gomes, “We Brazilians only have 500 years of history. Our National Museum was 200 years old, but that’s what we had, and what is lost forever. We have to reconstruct our National Museum.” The antique building, once the emperor’s palace, was deemed an “incalculable loss for Brazil” by its President Michel Temer.