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New Archeological Finds at Shayzar Castle

October, 27 2010

Day Press News

A huge wall and two props thought to date back to the Zinki era between 1146 and 1174 were unearthed in the archeological excavations at Shayzar Castle, 30 km in northwestern Hama.

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Early primates uncovered in Libya

October, 27 2010

USA Today

Libyan fossils suggest the earliest primate ancestors to apes and humans may have originally evolved long ago in Asia, scientists said Wednesday.

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Materials Scientists, Conservators Join Forces to Preserve Silver Artifacts and Art

October, 27 2010

PRNewswire

Where there's silver, there's tarnish. While getting the tarnish off your flatware might be an occasional inconvenience, to museum curators and conservators, it's a threat to irreplaceable works of art.

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Armenian archeologists: 5,900 year old skirt found

October, 27 2010

The Associated Press

An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900 year old.

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Eneolithic people found in Armenia

October, 27 2010

News Am

Eneolithic people found in Armenia Well preserved burial places of people of the eneolithic age have been found in the caves of Areni 1, Vaiots Dzor, Armenia. Excavations are conducted in cooperation with archeologists from the University of California (USA) and University College Cork (UCC) (Ireland), head of the Armenian team Boris Gasparyan said.

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Archaeologists discover pre Colombian water conservation measures in Amazonia

October, 26 2010

Spero News

The pre Columbian American societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized.

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The First Emperors Terracotta Army recruited outside China

October, 26 2010

The Independent

A Terracotta Acrobat, on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada. The Chief Archaeologist in charge of the Terracotta digs believes that they may depict performers from modern day Burma. Acrobats from Burma, workers from Central or West Asia, and a mausoleum design inspired by work in the Middle East the Mausoleum of China's First Emperor was a cosmopolitan place says Dr. Duan Qingbo, the man in charge of excavating it.

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David Attenboroughs big dig

October, 26 2010

The Guardian

Tomb or temple? ... Silbury Hill, Wiltshire Silbury Hill is as ancient and enigmatic as Stonehenge. David Attenborough tells Jonathan Jones why he set out to crack it

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Missing sacred swords of Todaiji found after 1,250 years

October, 26 2010

Japan Today

Two swords found under the Great Buddha of Todaiji temple in the Meiji era have been identified as sacred swords that had been missing for some 1,250 years since around 760 after Empress Komyo, the wife of Emperor Shomu who built the Buddha, dedicated them along with other items to the temple, the temple said Monday.

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