Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe

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For the first time, the fossil skeleton "Lucy" from Ethiopia can be seen in Europe. It is to be exhibited for two months in the Czech National Museum in Prague, as Ethiopian media reports. "Lucy" was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is kept in a safe in the National Museum in Addis Ababa.

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The National Museum is bringing to Prague one of the rarest loans in its history. The famous Australopithecus skeleton nicknamed Lucy, about three million years old, was transported by plane from Ethiopia, where it was discovered fifty years ago. People will be able to view it, along with a child's skeleton called Selam, which is even a hundred thousand years older, from August 25. Details were revealed by the director of the National Museum, Mi…

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Prague - Fossils of human ancestors, a female and a child of the species Australopithecus afarensis, landed in Prague this afternoon. The National Museum will exhibit them from August 25, having loaned them from the Ethiopian National Museum. Some of the most valuable and oldest paleoanthropological exhibits in the world, nicknamed Lucy and Selam, will be on display for sixty days. They are in Europe for the first time.

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Lucy and Selam will arrive in Prague today on a special Ethiopian Airlines flight at around 2:30 in the afternoon. Some of the oldest known ancestors of humanity are in Europe for the very first time and will be on display for two months from Monday, August 25, at the National Museum in Prague as part of the new exhibition People and Their Ancestors.