Discovered fifty years ago in Ethiopia, Lucy’s bones, the most famous of Australopithecus, will be exhibited in Prague in the summer of 2025, which represents a new European getaway for this skeleton of 3.18 million years.
“This is the first time they will be presented in the old continent,” said Czech Prime Minister Petro Fiala, announcing to the press, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, this rare loan of the National Museum of Ethiopia.
From Addis Abeba to Prague
The privilege returns to the National Museum of Prague, which will present the bones to the public as part of a broader exhibition that will be inaugurated on August 25, 2025 for two months.
The almost complete Selam skeleton, a young Australopithecus who died at the age of approximately 3 years and would have lived 100,000 years before Lucy, will also be this “high security” trip.
It had been discovered in 2000, a quarter of a century after updating Lucy’s 52 bone fragments, who …