'Significant' number of artifacts recovered from gutted Brazil museum

A “significant” number of artifacts has been recovered from Brazil’s National Museum which was gutted by fire five months ago, devastating one of Latin America’s most important natural history collections, according to the team of experts picking through the debris. While the exact quantity saved “is difficult to establish” at this point, the team was encouraged by the finds, its leader, archeologist Claudia Carvalho, told reporters on Tuesday. The museum’s director, Alexander Kellner, said 2,000 items had been recovered and registered, but explained many were fragments of one item. “Thanks to this success, we have an agreable problem: we need a lot more containers because we don’t have a lot of space” to store the finds, Kellner said. He added that the museum, located in a park in northern Rio de Janeiro, soon planned