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Bulgarian Archaeologist Claims He Found The Temple of Dionysus

August, 31 2011

Novinite

Bulgarian archaeologist Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov shows part of a marble relief of the Thracian Horseman found at Perperikon. Photo by BGNES Top Bulgarian archaeologist Professor Nikolay Ovcharov has presented new finds from the Ancient Thracian and medieval fortress of Perperikon proving the existence of an Antiquity period sanctuary that he believes could be the ancient Temple of Dionysus.

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Genetic Analysis of Medieval Plague Skeletons Shows Presence of Yersinia Pestis Bacteria

August, 31 2011

Science Daily

Yersinia pestis, direct fluorescent antibody stain (DFA), 200x magnification. (Credit: CDC/Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory) The Black Death claimed the lives of one third of Europeans in just five years from 1348 to 1353.

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More on 2,000 Year Old Burial Box Could Reveal Location of the Family of Caiaphas

August, 31 2011

Science Daily

This image shows detail of the ossuary's inscription. (Credit: Image courtesy of American Friends of Tel Aviv University) In Jerusalem and Judah, ancient limestone burial boxes containing skeletal remains called ossuaries are fairly common archaeological finds from the 1st century BCE to the 1st century AD period.

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Elsyng Palace history unearthed as tile found on site in Forty Hall, Enfield

August, 31 2011

Enfield Independent

Archaeologists also found this coin depicting Henry VIII. ARCHEOLOGISTS have unearthed a piece of Enfield history on a dig at the former palace of Henry VIII.

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Archaeological dig unearths artifacts at African meeting house

August, 31 2011

Portland Daily Sun

Excavations now under way around the Abyssinian Meeting House are part plumbing project, part historical rescue mission, part archaeological study. The archaeological dig, launched last Wednesday, comes as a volunteer committee is seeking to redirect water that's entering the historic building from an underground spring.

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Aztec Maps Put Cortes to Shame

August, 31 2011

Science Magazine

As far as tax collectors in colonial Mexico went, Gonzalo de Salazar, often dubbed "El Gordo," was a pinchpenny.

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Humans shaped stone axes 1.8 million years ago, study says

August, 31 2011

PhysOrg

Early humans were using stone hand axes as far back as 1.8 million years ago. Credit: Pierre-Jean Texier, National Center of Scientific Research, France A new study suggests that Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced toolmaking methods in East Africa 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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Extraordinary pictures of the 2,000 year old underground labyrinth

August, 31 2011

Daily Mail

A tourist walks through a columbarium - once used to raise pigeons - at Hirbet Madras archeological site, in the foothills of Jerusalem It is a long journey down into the dark and back into the depths of history.

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Dunning Iron Age find shows Roman Pictish link

August, 31 2011

BBC

A number of Roman trade goods were found inside the broch Iron Age dwelling remains uncovered in Perthshire could cast "new light" on early Scottish history.

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Well preserved 3,000 year old tomb found in Luoyang

August, 31 2011

Peoples Daily Online

The photo shows the archeological excavation site of an aristocratic tomb of the early Western Zhou dynasty in Luoyang City of Henan province on Aug. 29. Lying on the two ends of the coffin, mortuary objects included bronzeware and a rare set of bronze chariots and horses, some of which are gilded. On Aug. 29, archeologists finished excavating bronzeware from a tomb of the Early Western Zhou dynasty located in Luoyang City of Henan province.