COLUMBIA — A pair of staffers gingerly carried a half dozen heavy clay jars up a ladder to their new perches in the Museum of Art and Archaeology at MU. They babied the jars, each swaddled in a bundle of blankets, lifting them off pushcarts before handing them up the ladder and setting them carefully down. People in the gallery watched, as if it were a delicate ballet.
Ancient jars, essential to commerce, see daylight at MU museum
Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 5:53 p.m. CDT;
updated 8:21 p.m. CDT, Thursday, April 1, 2010
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