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Detailed explanation-1: -A fire has gutted the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Most of the 20 million items it contained, including the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas, are believed to have been destroyed. The cause of the blaze is not known.

Detailed explanation-2: -The museum had been underfunded and vulnerable to fire for years. After a series of warnings, an overheated air-conditioning unit caught fire on 2 September 2018 and quickly spread throughout the 122-room building. Within two hours, the museum itself, and more than 18 million pieces in its archive, had been destroyed.

Detailed explanation-3: -An improperly installed air conditioning unit on the ground floor of Brazil’s National Museum ignited the September 2018 blaze that razed the 200-year-old cultural institution and reduced the majority of its 20-million artifact collection to ashes, local authorities reported at a press conference.

Detailed explanation-4: -The meteorite is worth R$ 3 million and was lost in the rubble of the National Museum.

Detailed explanation-5: -The overnight inferno likely claimed fossils, cultural artifacts, and more irreplaceable collections amassed over 200 years. Major pieces of Brazil’s scientific and cultural heritage went up in smoke on September 2, as a devastating fire ripped through much of Rio de Janeiro’s Museu Nacional, or National Museum.