The National Museum of Brazil was heavily damaged by a large fire which began about 19:30 local time on 2 September 2018. Although some items were saved, it is believed that 92.5% of its archive of 20 million items were destroyed in the fire as around 1.5 million items were stored in a separate building, which were not damaged.
The National Museum building burning behind the statue of Emperor Pedro II
Paço de São Cristóvão following the fire.
The burned facade.
Picture shows funerary vases destroyed
Luzia Woman
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Luzia Woman is the name for an Upper Paleolithic period skeleton of a Paleo-Indian woman who was found in a cave in Brazil. The 11,500-year-old skeleton was found in a cave in the Lapa Vermelha archeological site in Pedro Leopoldo, in the Greater Belo Horizonte region of Brazil, in 1974 by archaeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire.
Photogrammetry of all skull sides by Cicero Moraes
A cast of Luzia's skull at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Facial reconstruction of Luzia completed at the National Museum of Brazil visible in this 2015 photograph