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Discovery of the tombs builders of the pyramids

January, 28 2011

Al Masry Al Youm

Discovery of the tombs builders of the pyramids Workers in Abu Yasseen village in Sharqiya Governorate found three pharaonic coffins and other artefacts while digging as part of a sewage project in the village.

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Clues to ships ID elusive: Bell provides no name for craft discovered in 2009

January, 28 2011

St Augustine Record

Starr Cox, archeological conservator at the Lighthouse Archeological Maritime Program, uses a hammer and blunt metal object to remove concretions from a bronze bell, hoping to find the name of the sunken vessel it belonged to, during the Unveiling History event at the St. Augustine Lighthouse on Sunday afternoon. By DARON DEAN, As a large crowd of people peeked around one another Sunday to watch the event happening about 20 yards beyond her, Marie Valdes stared almost straight up at the St. Augustine Lighthouse, following her 2 year old grandson, Desmond in pointing at its beacon.

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Stanford archaeologist shows how the Romans made pottery in Britain

January, 28 2011

Stanford University

Melissa Chatfield removes the fired pottery from the kiln as student Kate Rose looks on. What the Romans in Britain lacked in aesthetics they more than made up for in efficiency and a Stanford researcher shows how they did it by recreating and firing a kiln based on the late Iron Age and Roman models in Britain.

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Westernmost Xia dynasty site discovered in China

January, 28 2011

The Stone Pages

The Archaeological Institute of Shaanxi Province (Central China) reported that archaeologists found ancient tombs, ash pits and a long ditch in the style and scale common to the Xia dynasty when they did excavation work to Lao Niu Po ruins in Xi'an recently.

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Archeologists discover ancient ruins along Tanzanian coastal area

January, 28 2011

eTurbo News

Archeologists discover ancient ruins along Tanzanian coastal area Tanzanian archaeologists and historical experts have announced the discovery of dozens of ancient ruins along the coastal area, dating back to as far as the 13th century.

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A land of watchtowers: New research sheds light on Roman occupation of Portugal

January, 28 2011

Unreported Heritage News

This hilltop watchtower is one of 24 that were built in the Alto Alentejo region of Portugal during a period of Roman occupation. In this picture Rui Clemente, one of the team members, takes measurements. A team of archaeologists, working in Portugal, are exploring a system of 24 hilltop watchtowers set up in the aftermath of a Roman civil war.

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Did the ancient Egyptians know of pygmy mammoths? Well, there is that tomb painting.

January, 28 2011

Tetrapod Zoology Blog

Did the ancient Egyptians know of pygmy mammoths? Well, there is that tomb painting. One of the things that came up in the many comments appended to the article on Bob's painting of extinct Maltese animals was the famous Egyptian tomb painting of the 'pygmy mammoth'.

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Sailing into antiquity: BU archeologist unearths clues about ancient Egypts sea trade

January, 28 2011

Boston Globe

The archeological digs at Egypt's Wadi Gawasis have yielded neither mummies nor grand monuments.

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Success of Poznan archaeologists in Sudan

January, 28 2011

Serwis Nauka w Polsce

Members of the expedition. Left to right: K. Pluskota, M. ChBodnicki, P. Bobrowski, M. Kobusiewicz, M. Jórdeczka, photo: M. Jórdeczka Concentration of carvings with thousands of images, ancient burial grounds and several dozen terracotta figurines were found by archaeological team from the Department of Archaeology of Africa of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Poznan Branch during a survey in the mountains on the Red Sea, north of Port Sudan.