Lucy's Legacy Goes to New York

The icon of paleoanthropology—the famous 3.2 million-year-old hominid known as Lucy—will travel to the worlds most iconic landmark, New Yorks Times Square, for display from June 24 through Oct. 25, 2009.

Lucys Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia opens at Discovery Times Square Exposition™, a new state-of-the-art exhibition facility located in the former printing presses building of The New York Times at 226 West 44th Street. Recent scientific research conducted on Lucy illustrates that she still has stories to tell, said Dirk Van Tuerenhout, curator of anthropology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Even though she lived more than 3 million years ago, Lucy continues to give us clues about what it means to be a human.

In addition to Lucy, behold more than 100 artifacts which illuminate Ethiopias rich heritage. See early stone tools found in Ethiopia; a wide selection of objects from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church such as illuminated manuscripts and processional crosses; a selection of Korans from the holy city of Harar, the fourth most important site in Islam; and the first coins minted by an indigenous African civilization. Paintings, musical instruments, implements of daily use, a scale model of the famous Church of St. George in Lalibela and more will also be on display.

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[magick205]

I've heard that due to the low turn out that the exhibit was closing and going back to Ethiopia? Is that correct?

[rbnitefire]

this is awsome

3.2 millon years old

[2009Historian]

a brillant combanation of technology use from Ape man to us in modern world!!

Lucy the ape was the first ape who had simular charictoristics to us!