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Houston Museum of Natural Science hosting Lucy fossil exhibit
Dig those old bones? Lucy, one of the oldest fossils of a hominid, will be on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science from Friday to April 20, 2008.
"Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia" will include more than 100 artifacts from museums and private collections from the African nation considered to be the cradle of humankind.
Among them: tools, baskets, vessels, and illuminated manuscripts from early Islam and Christianity used in the 1st millennium and earlier. But the exhibit's showcase piece is Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of a woman discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s. Tickets are $12 to $20.
Info: (713) 639-4629, www.hmns.org.
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