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Gladiators to Return to Colosseum After 2,000 Years
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King Tut's Father ID'd in Stone Inscription
by Rossella Lorenzi
An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's greatest mysteries -- who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News.
Ancient ruins may reveal fate of Moche sex and sacrifice culture
Ancient Mass Graves of Soldiers, Babies Found in Italy
by Maria Cristina Valsecchi in Rome
More than 10,000 graves containing ancient amphorae, "baby bottles," and the bodies of soldiers who fought the Carthaginians were found near the ancient Greek colony of Himera, in Italy, archaeologists announced recently.
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DNA is recovered from ancestral snack
WE MAY soon find out exactly what our ancestors ate when they sat down to dinner. The discovery that DNA can be extracted from ancient cooked bones overturns the expectation that heat would destroy such genetic material.
Museum mummy murder mystery
IT is the murder mystery which has spanned thousands of years. Archaeologists have long questioned how an unidentified man entombed in a 1,700-year-old mummy at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery met his death.
Read the rest here.'Lost Leonardo da Vinci drawings' found on back of one of his paintings in the Louvre
A curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris has stumbled upon some unknown drawings on the back of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that look like they might be by the Italian master himself.
Sketches by a master? The three sketches, possibly drawn by da Vinci, are of a horse's head, half a skull and baby Jesus and playing with a lamb
Christmas carol is really a rebel song in celebration of Bonnie Prince Charlie, claims expert
It has been sung at carol services across the country but a centuries-old secret political code has been found in a popular Christmas song. According to one musical expert, O Come All Ye Faithful, also called Adeste Fideles, is actually a birth ode to Jacobite pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Ancient city discovered in Peru that dates back to Wari culture
The sprawling site contained cells and rooms that were used for human sacrifice
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Ancestral History Explains Roots Of Income Inequality
ScienceDaily — Two Brown University economists have created a new data set explaining differences in the world’s current per capita gross domestic products (GDPs). In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Louis Putterman and David N. Weil introduce a “World Migration Matrix” showing that inequality among countries can be largely explained by where the ancestors of each country’s people lived some 500 years ago.
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Voice from the past: Listen to a family Christmas recording hidden since the Great War
Ghostly voices from a family celebrating Christmas together during the First World War have been heard for the first time in nearly a century. The recordings provide a fascinating insight into an English family living at a tumultuous time in world history. Eight phonograph cyclinders, made of beeswax and soap, feature the Smith family from Salisbury in Wiltshire singing carols and sicussing 'daddy being away at war.'
• CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE INCREDIBLE 95-YEAR-OLD RECORDINGS
The rare recordings, made on wax cylinders, have been heard for the first time in 95 years after they were copied onto a CD
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World’s oldest portrait in peril
New dinosaurs discovered by British scientists in Sahara desert
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The river - as wide as the Danube - flowed across the Sahara desert 100 million years ago, surrounded by lush forests, waterways and lakes.
Dr Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth and Nizar Ibrahim from University College Dublin preparing to move a bone from a new species of sauropod discovered in the Sahara desert
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Pompeii Family's Final Hours Reconstructed
Italian researchers have reconstructed the last hours in Pompeii of a dozen people who managed to survive Mount Vesuvius' devastating eruption for more than 19 hours.
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2,000-Year-Old Woman Found in Incheon
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Fifth Century settlement located
A Fifth Century Germanic settlement has been discovered on land set out for regeneration in Kent.
Read the rest on the BBC.Searchers find remains of Teutonic Knights leaders
WARSAW, Poland – Polish archaeologists believe silk-draped skeletons found in a cathedral crypt are those of three grand masters who more than 600 years ago ruled the Teutonic Knights — an order that spread religion through force.
Read the rest on Yahoo.Pay £500,000? God help us, say couple forced by a medieval law to foot the bill for church repairs
Andrew and Gail Wallbank outside the church they are being forced to pay to repair - simply because they inherited land with a chancel repair liability
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Scientists Find Oldest Human Brain in Britain
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Graves 'may mark ancient church'
A team of Oxfordshire researchers and archaeologists have discovered three graves which they believe could mark the site of a medieval church.
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Vase discovery linked to Mary Magdalene
The Italian team have been digging for several months at the ancient Palestinian town of Magdala – from where Mary gets her name. The archaeologists of the Franciscan academic society Studium Biblicum Franciscanum found the unopened vases dating to the first century AD conserved in mud at the bottom of a swimming pool in Magdala's thermal complex.
Read the rest on the Telegraph.Rare artifacts uncovered in Roman baths dig
By Deepa Babington
ROME (Reuters Life!) - Excavations at an ancient Roman villa and bath complex in the outskirts of Rome have unearthed a wealth of surprisingly well-preserved artifacts, including the marble head of a Greek god, archaeologists said on Wednesday.
Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture?
Alexis Okeowo in México City
for National Geographic News
Several stone sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in the region, archaeologists say.
Read the rest on National Geographic.Archaeologists dig into Greenham peace camp
They may not rank with the Pyramids or Sutton Hoo, but the traces of one Britain's best-known protest camps are being sifted by a team of archaeologists. More than 600 artefacts have been catalogued at the skeletal remnants of Turquoise Gate camp, Greenham Common, as part of a project to tell the "full story" about the women's anti-nuclear campaign 25 years ago.
Read the rest on the Guardian.Roman temple unearthed in Notts
THE remains of a Roman temple have been found in Notts – and experts say it could re-write the history books. A wall dating back as far as 43AD, made from large smooth-faced sandstone blocks, has been unearthed at the former Minster School site in Southwell.
Read the rest here.Divers search for Armada treasure off Mull
The Observer
More than 400 years after a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver slid beneath the waves in the waters surrounding the Isle of Mull, a new mission has been launched to try to recover its hoard of treasure.
Read the rest on the Guardian.Shipwreck clues could clear Blackbeard of sinking his ship to swindle his crew
He was history's most feared pirate, striking terror into seafarers as he cut a bloodthirsty swathe through the Caribbean and North Atlantic. But new research has found that Blackbeard may be innocent of one of the most notorious charges against him.
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Ancient Roman Oil Lamp 'Factory Town' Found
Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman empire were made.
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The world’s first Illyrian trading post found
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY: - Our discovery is important for understanding cultural identities in the Balkans in ancient times,”, says Marina Prusac at University of Oslo. Photo: University of Mostar Tekst: Yngve Vogt
A unique archaeological discovery in the Balkans: Archaeologists from the University of Oslo have just found the first Illyrian trading post of all time. So Balkan history must now be rewritten!
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Stone Age string: Unearthed, the twine that was twisted into shape 8,000 years ago
Found in the mud: The ancient stringBy
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Shock of office boss whose paperweight turned out to be a live WWI shell packed with TNT
When a friend out diving found a foot-long lump of metal on the seabed, printing firm boss Jeff Hayes decided it would make an ideal paperweight. For the next two years it sat on his desk as he chatted to his 150 employees - blissfully unaware that it was an unexploded bomb from the First World War.
Prehistoric Flying Reptile Was Bigger Than a Car
Mark Witton: An amazing artist's representation of Lacusovagus, which scientists say represents a new genus of pterosaurs.
Live Science: A fossil of a toothless flying pterosaur, with a body bigger than some family cars, represents one of the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists announced today.
Dental Plaque Gives Clue To Diet Of Ancient People
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DNA Secrets: Cave's latrines yield new evidence about prehistoric North America
PAISLEY, Ore. -- For some 85 years, homesteaders, pot hunters and archaeologists have been digging at Paisley Caves, a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing climate.
Read the rest here.Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?
for National Geographic News
Modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia.
Read the rest on National Geographic.Lost city of 'cloud people' found in Peru
By Jeremy McDermott, Latin America Correspondent 
Buildings carved into the Pachallama peak mountainside in Peru, by Chachapoya
The settlement covers some 12 acres and is perched on a mountainside in the remote Jamalca district of Utcubamba province in the northern jungles of Peru's Amazon.
Read the rest on the Telegraph.First credit crunch traced back to Roman republic
Politicians searching for historical precedents for the current financial turmoil should start looking a bit further back after an Oxford University historian discovered what he believes is the world's first credit crunch in 88BC.
Read the rest on the Guardian.Herculaneum's glories shown off
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Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia.
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks.
Read the rest on the BBC.Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb
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Rare Bronze Age necklace is found
A rare amber necklace believed to be about 4,000 years old has been uncovered in Greater Manchester. Archaeologists made the find while excavating a cist - a type of stone-lined grave - in Mellor, Stockport.
Read the rest on the BBC.Painting that inspired iconic Christmas card is found hanging in pensioner's home... and it's now worth £70,000
As one of the most popular Christmas card scenes of all time, it has graced mantelpieces by the million. But for the last 40 years, an elderly woman has contented herself with the knowledge that only she had the original painting of Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches.
Going, going... the auctioneers' Elena Ratcheva with the original painting of Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches
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A temple discovered below Romuliana
ZAJECAR – German experts from the Archeological Institute of Frankfurt in collaboration with our experts have come to an incredible discovery- they have found monumental buildings below Romuliana covering 300 square meters. A temple and 25 objects have been hidden under the surface.
“It was generally believed that Romuliana, the place where Roman emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus (297-311) was born, was a village.
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Medieval Bishop's palace discovered in Ross
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An Embalmed Corpse of a King was discovered in Kurdistan-Iran
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Mystery of stone 'note' is solved
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