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cbc Angry crowds mourn devastating loss remains After Brazil museum fire, questions about cause, what survived angry Angry crowds gather at Brazil's National Museum after devastating fire loss 'Incalculable loss' as massive fire tears through Brazil's 200-year old National Museum careless anthropologist blames 'careless' government for fire resende Fire Photos UFRJ staff member Beatriz Resende took these photos of the fire. stadium Stadium intact while museum burns "This photo could not be more emblematic. The Maracanã Stadium, retired recently and cost more than 1 billion reais and next to the National Museum, which received less than 400 thousand reais per year to take care of its maintenance. It shows a lot of what we are as people, as a society, as a nation". - Julio Reis bbc Desperate attempts to salvage artefacts By Katy Watson, BBC South America correspondent The pale yellow building is still standing - but the windows are burned out, the roof has gone and its insides are black. Throughout the day, firefighters, investigators and even museum staff have been going into the building and every so often they have brought out bits of artefacts or anything they think they can salvage from the rubble. Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country's National Museum. One of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas was almost totally destroyed in Sunday's fire in Rio de Janeiro. This included the 12,000-year-old remains of a woman known as "Luzia" - the oldest discovered in Latin America. There had also been a string of complaints about the dilapidated state of the 200-year-old museum. cnn Huge fire burns old stuff Millions of old things were inside when a massive fire broke out in an old house.

guardian Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil. natgeo Fire Devastates Brazil's Oldest Science Museum The overnight inferno likely claimed fossils, cultural artifacts, and more irreplaceable collections amassed over 200 years. nyt Double Blow to Brazil Museum: Neglect, Then Flames By Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Lis Moriconi Sept. 3, 2018 RIO DE JANEIRO — The stately national museum, once home to Brazil’s royal family, was still smoldering at sunrise on Monday when scores of researchers, museum workers and anthropologists began gathering outside, dressed in black. Some sobbed as they began taking stock of the irreplaceable losses: Thousands, perhaps millions, of significant artifacts had been reduced to ashes Sunday night in a devastating fire. The hall that held a 12,000-year-old skeleton known as Luzia, the oldest human remains discovered in the Americas, was destroyed. ansp The Academy of Natural Sciences Irreplaceable Loss to Science