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Wreck of HMS Victory recovered from Channel

February, 01 2009

Telegraph

A Bronze cannon on the shipwreck site of HMS Victory bearing the royal crest of King George I, in the English Channel The shipwrecked predecessor to Lord Nelson's HMS Victory, which is thought to contain millions of pounds' worth of gold, is thought to have been found at the bottom of the English Channel.

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Hobbit feud: scientists argue over mysterious bones

February, 01 2009

USA Today

Image of LB1 "Hobbit" skull, as compared to a modern human skull The setting was a hidden island filled with pint-size men who feasted on pygmy elephants and battled dragons. The story of paleontology's "Hobbits," the extinct human species called Homo floresiensis, packs plenty of drama.

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River of gold: PreColumbian treasures from the Sitio Conte

February, 01 2009

Knoxville News Sentinel

Oval-embossed gold plaque. A river shifted 100 years ago to reveal golden treasures created, then buried, by an ancient people. Now those gleaming discoveries will be shown at the University of Tennessee's Frank H. McClung Museum.

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LU professor has plans for biblical museum

February, 01 2009

Lynchburg News and Advance

LU professor has plans for biblical museum Randall Price and a team of students uncover bones and other deposits during an archaeological dig in Qumran, Israel, through Liberty University.

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Albania: Ancient wreck hunt in once forbidden sea

February, 01 2009

The Associated Press

Once Europe's most forbidding coast, this sparkling stretch of the Ionian Sea is slowly revealing lost treasures that date back 2,500 years and shipwrecks from ancient times.

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Ancient caves buried deep in the Kalahari

February, 01 2009

Mmegi

On the surface it betrays the eye; the Kalahari Desert is alive with vegetation and undulations, where life in the wild continues as usual. Down below though, the desert is hiding something precious - ancient caves that lie buried under a thick blanket of windblown sand dunes over thousands of years.

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Iceman Oetzi Attacked Twice, Scientists Say

February, 01 2009

Deutsche Welle

Oetzi didn't have a peaceful death, doctors say Doctors who studied the Iceman, a mummified Stone Age hunter found in Italy in 1991, announced this week that he was shot to death and may have been attacked not once, but twice in his final days.

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Roman skeleton crew - The eternal city gives up her dead-again

February, 01 2009

New York Post

A water main break led to the discovery of these very early citizens of Rome. For anyone familiar with Rome, the tour of the city's catacombs was the last word on skeletons.