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To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It
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Roman era reveals expenses claims
Ancient Roman writing tablets suggest public officials were involved in expenses scandals 2,000 years ago.
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Have a wonderful summer!!!!!!!!
4,000-year-old road found in city
A Bronze Age road has been found below Swansea's shifting foreshore.
The short section of track was discovered by a metal detector enthusiast and archaeologists have now dated it to around 4,000 years ago.
Read the rest on the BBC.New finds span time
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'Oldest' human settlement found
Mystery footprints restore warring scene
Newly discovered footprints of different sizes, apparently left by men, women and children, on an ancient military route, have helped recreate a war scene that occurred at least 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist said Friday.
Jerusalem archaeologists uncover Iron Age jar handle with Hebrew inscription
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Bristol Roman villa finder's thoughts revealed
Louis XVI's final testament discovered
The king wrote the "Declaration to all the French" the day before fleeing Paris in 1791.
Read the rest on The Telegraph.Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists
by John roach
The glittering "grills" of some hip-hop stars aren't exactly unprecedented. Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago, a new study says.
Read the rest on National Geographic.
Antiquities returned to Greece
The gold-fingered gardener who unearths a piece of treasure every time she tends her vegetable patch
Many a veteran gardener will tell you they're 'green-fingered'. For relative novice Jan Long, however, 'gold-fingered' is a more apt description - as nearly every time she weeds her borders or tends her vegetable patch, she unearths an antique.
Read the rest on the Daily Mail.Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
by Gautam Naik
In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.
Fish Poisoning May Be Why Polynesians Left Paradise
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How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans
One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.
Read the rest on the Guardian.Weekend Fun!
Sardinians unlock 'sardonic grin'
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Emperor Trajan's Palace discovered in southwestern Romania
BUCHAREST (Xinhua) -- Romanian archaeologists have discovered, in southeastern county of Caras-Severin, a complex structure estimated to be 2,000 years old belonging to the Roman culture, local media reported on Thursday.
Venus figurine sheds light on origins of art by early humans
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Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows
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Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in Mexico
for National Geographic News
An island for ancient elites has been found in central Mexico, archaeologists say. Among the ruins are a treasury and a small pyramid that may have been used for rituals.
Read the rest on National Geographic.Roman Ruins Survive the Ages Thanks to Volcanic Ash
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The king of Stonehenge: Were artefacts at ancient chief's burial site Britain's first Crown Jewels?
He was a giant of a man, a chieftain who ruled with a royal sceptre and a warrior's axe. When they laid him to rest they dressed him in his finest regalia and placed his weapons at his side.
Read the rest on the DailyMail.Rare statue of marble discovered in Alexandria
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BBC show unearths 1641 'passport'
A BBC show which values viewers' family heirlooms has found one of its most valuable artefacts in Sunderland.
Read the rest on the BBC.'Mayan king' remains found
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Think your life is bad? Archaeologists show us worse.
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Egypt's antiquities head says statements nonsensical
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'Lost' medieval church discovered
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a so-called "lost" medieval village church in Ceredigion.
'Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lake
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Sinai fort may hold clues to ancient Egypt defenses
By Alastair Sharp
QANTARA, Egypt (Reuters) - A military garrison of mud-brick and seashells unearthed in Egypt's Sinai desert may be key to finding a web of pharaonic-era defenses at the northeast gateway to ancient Egypt, archaeologists said on Thursday.
What are you waiting for?
If you haven't picked up your paperback copy of CW. Gortner's The Last Queen, now is the time! This is the story of Juana of Castile - or Joanna the Mad - the last Spanish queen and the sister of Catherine of Aragon (yes, that Catherine of Aragon, who married Henry VIII). If you haven't read it already, you're missing out!
'Ancient text' seized in Israel
Israeli authorities say they have recovered a papyrus document which appears to be nearly 2,000 years old.
Ancient tsunami 'hit New York'
Science reporter
A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and casting wood debris far up the Hudson River.
Read the rest on the BBC.DNA test could shed light on Lincoln's last days, doctor says
CNN Senior Medical Producer
Was President Abraham Lincoln dying of a rare genetic disease when an assassin killed him in 1865?
Read the rest on CNN.EBay Has Unexpected, Chilling Effect On Looting Of Antiquities, Archaelogist Finds
The daughter of a Peruvian artisan who specializes in the production of fake antiquities holds up an example. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Los Angeles)
ScienceDaily — Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago.
Van Gogh didn't cut off his ear - it was chopped off by Gauguin in a row over a woman, academics claim
Self-portrait: Vincent Van Gogh never spoke about the cause of his missing ear, but it is claimed rival Paul Gauguin chopped it off outside a brothel
By
For more than 100 years, famous artist Vincent Van Gogh has been portrayed as a tortured genius who cut off his own ear as he battled with mental illness.
But it seems we may have been given the wrong impression.
Read the rest on the DailyMail.Babylon Ruins Reopen in Iraq, to Controversy
Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome
BBC News, Rome
Rome's underground Christian, Jewish and pagan burial sites, the Catacombs, date back to the 2nd Century AD. There are more than 40 of them stretching over 170km (105 miles). But, until now, they have never been fully documented, their vast scale only recorded with handmade maps.
Read the rest on the BBC.Google Accidentally Offends Japanese Sensibilities
TOKYO — When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash.
Read the rest here."Lost World" of Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction?
for National Geographic News
An isolated group of dinosaurs somehow survived the catastrophic event that wiped out most of their kind some 65.5 million years ago, a new study suggests.
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HISTORY'S HORRORS IN THE PRESENT: Iran Hangs Young Woman Convicted of Murder As A Minor
The lawyer said Darabi called her parents just moments before the execution. He quoted her as saying, "Oh, Mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me. They are going to execute me. Please save me....
Mostafaei said the court did not seriously consider his arguments in the woman's defense. For example, he said, Darabi was left-handed, while all the evidence suggests the crime was committed by someone who was right-handed.
Read the rest here.Aristotle school to become open-air museum
Museum’s Egyptian Mummies: Visit to HUP for CT Scanning
PUM II and Hapi-Men, two of the ancient Egyptian mummies on display at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have had their share of medical scrutiny: PUM II was both x-rayed and autopsied in 1973, while Hapi-Men underwent an x-ray in 1980.
Ancient Carvings Reveal Pharaoh's Dark Age
AFP: Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed carvings at four ancient temples in the Sinai peninsula which they hope will shed fresh light on one of the most obscure periods of Pharaonic history.
Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
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