In Brazil have found a unique exhibition among the debris of the burned museum

On the showcase where they kept the show, they dropped a metal box, closing it with fire.

Among the burnt rubble of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, scientists were able to find one of the most valuable pieces of the collection destroyed by a fire in early September, a skull of Luzia, the most old fossil never found in America.

As the museum's deputy director, Christian Serejo, said, the bones survived thanks to a happy coincidence. On the showcase where they kept the show, they dropped a metal box, closing it with fire. As a result, the skull is broken into pieces (fade as bonding glue), but it is quite possible to rebuild from found fragments. "This is good news … it was a miracle after the tragedy", – quotes Sarego Reuters. "We had the impression to meet a family member again" – echoes his archaeologist Claudia Carvalho , who directs the research of preserved objects.

The 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil, which had more than 20 million of the most valuable exhibitions, was almost set on fire on 2 September. The exact cause of the fire is still not installed .. the fire has destroyed thousands of objects telling the story of Brazil and other countries, including included elements of ancient Egyptian culture. Lost summer and remain Luzia, who are more than 11 thousand years old.

A skeleton of a partially preserved young woman, discovered by a team of French and Brazilian archaeologists in 1975, has become one of the most famous and valuable exhibitions of the museum. For security reasons, skull and femur, Lusia was kept on the ground floor, away from the rest of the anthropological collections, located at the third complete collapse.