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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Pilgrim Road Through Jerusalems Old City

January, 28 2011

Bloomberg

Israeli archaeologists discovered an ancient road used by pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem's Old City 2,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a press release emailed today.

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Progress in the cemeteries of Amara West

January, 28 2011

The British Museum

Progress in the cemeteries of Amara West After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important insights into the funerary customs of the people living at Amara West.

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Mexican Archaeologists Permanently Place Stone Slab of Maya Ruler Pakal on Sarcophagus

January, 28 2011

Art Daily

The slab made out of a single block of sedimentary rock of a thickness that goes from 245 to 290 millimeters. Photo: Proyecto de conservación de la cripta de Pakal, Palenque, Chiapas/INAH. More than 1,300 years after an entourage accompanied the mortal remains of the Maya ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal into the crypt at Temple of the Inscriptions, in the ancient city of Palenque, experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) conducted the definitive placement of the slab that covers the sarcophagus.

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Vietnams own great wall uncovered

January, 28 2011

CNN News

Andrew Hardy (center) and Nguyen Tien Dong (left) led the team that uncovered the wall in central Vietnam. Nestled in the mountain foothills of a remote province in central Vietnam, one of the country's most important archaeological discoveries in a century has recently come to light.

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Loyal dog still guarding coins after 2,000 years

January, 28 2011

This is Leicestershire

The skeleton of a dog buried with the Hallaton Treasure Archaeologists have pieced together the remains of a 2,000 year old guard dog whose spirit is believed to have protected a hoard of treasure.

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A new Norse saga: DNA detectives in the Viking North West

January, 25 2011

24dash

A new Norse saga: DNA detectives in the Viking North West The Vikings are alive and well and living in the North West of England! That's the revelation in a new book on an epic research project into the genetic footprint of the Scandinavian invaders.

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Gaza church goes under second stage of restoration

January, 25 2011

ABNA

Gaza church goes under second stage of restoration The Gaza Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched the second phase in a project to restore the Byzantine Church in Jabalia (northern Gaza Strip).

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Students help repair Bronze Age burial cairns in Pembrokeshire

January, 25 2011

News Wales

Students help repair Bronze Age burial cairns in Pembrokeshire Army Preparation Course students have helped to repair a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.The group of 14 from Pembrokeshire College joined the National Park Authority's Archaeologist and Rangers to help reinstate damaged Bronze Age burial cairns on the Preseli Hills.

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Egypt demands Germany return Nefertiti

January, 25 2011

AFP

The bust of Queen Nefertiti was unearthed in 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt Egypt's antiquities chief said Monday that Cairo has demanded that Germany return the 3,400 year old bust of fabled Queen Nefertiti, 98 years after it was uncovered on the banks of the Nile.

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First One Fingered Dinosaur Found: Dug for Bugs?

January, 25 2011

National Geographic News

An artist's rendering of the one-fingered, short-armed new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus. Linhenykus likely used long digit to probe termite mounds.