Flames Engulf Brazil’s National Museum, Destroying Massive Cultural and Scientific Collection
11,000 years ’ worth of artifacts blend in up in smoke as the 200 - yr - older National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro — one of the orotund solicitation in the Americas — burned down in a monumental firestorm on Sunday night . grant to theRio Times , account indicate that every piece from the museum ’s assemblage of over 20 million items that was not stored offsite or rushed out could be destroyed :...