US EditionOriginal 'Lucy' Fossil Makes First European Appearance in Prague Through Oct. 23
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Video - The bones of the best known specimen of the species Australopithecus afarensis have been exhibited since 25 August at the National Museum of the Czech Republic.
The National Museum on Monday exhibited some of the most valuable and oldest paleoanthropological exhibits in the world. The original fossils of human ancestors, Lucy and Selam, dating back more than three million years, were presented in Addis Ababa in 2006 and have never left Ethiopia except for a six-year visit from the United States. Their loan is based on an agreement between Ethiopia and the Czech Republic. Visitors to the National Museum …
The skeleton of a 3.18-million-year-old human ancestor named Lucy, who rarely left Ethiopia, is on display in Europe for the first time. It is on display at the National Museum in Prague, where it is displayed alongside Selam, a fossil of a juvenile Australopithecus that lived 100,000 years before Lucy.
The skeleton of a 3.18 million-year-old human ancestor named Lucy, who rarely left Ethiopia, is on display in Europe for the first time. It has been exhibited at the National Museum in Prague, where it is displayed alongside a fossil of a juvenile Australopithecus that lived about 100,000 years before Lucy and was found at the same location 25 years ago.
It will be part of the exhibition until October 23rd.
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