“It is an unbearable catastrophe.” So said a director of the 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro — the country’s oldest scientific institution — after it was consumed by flames Sunday night.

Many of the museum’s 20 million items, which include Egyptian and Greco-Roman artifacts, dinosaur bones, a 12,000-year-old human skeleton, and many Brazilian historical treasures, are believed to have been destroyed.

President Michel Temer called it “a sad day for all Brazilians” and described the loss as “incalculable.”

It’s still unclear how the fire began.

Source : Ozy News