Marajoara Culture, Anthropomorphic Funerary Urn

"Anthropomorphic Funerary Urn" by unknown

Today, a massive, devastating fire has largely destroyed the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional) in Rio De Janeiro. The museum's collection contains more than 20 million items, and so far initial reports don't indicate how much of this precious material could be forever lost to science, and to the collective history of humanity.

A moment of silence for this horrible event