Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Picture Of The Day

People watch as a fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro late on Sunday night

WNU Editor: The above picture is from this link .... Two hundred years of history and twenty million valuable pieces GONE: Despair as firefighters search charred ruins of Rio's National Museum as hope fades artefacts can be salvaged (Daily Mail)

1 comment:

Roger Smith said...


And the whole structure appears to be gutted. This situation must have been in existence for years and years.
What a loss for Brazil and historians and scholars world wide.