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Anglo Saxon settlement unearthed in Northumberland

December, 22 2010

BBC

Investigations also revealed a number of other sites The remains of an Anglo Saxon settlement have been discovered at a surface mine in Northumberland.

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Archaeo zoology Studies Say Canidae Were Bred in Teotihuacan with Ritual Purposes

December, 22 2010

Art Daily

Recreation of a burial at the Moon pyramid, Teotihuacan, where the use of canidae for rituals is observed. Photo: DMC INAH/H. Montano. Archaeo zoology studies applied to skeletons of canidae found in burials at the Moon Pyramid and the Quetzalcoatl Temple revealed they practiced hybridization between dogs and wolves.

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Grisly Scene Gives Clues to Neandertal Family Structure

December, 22 2010

Science Magazine

Bone gallery. Ancient DNA from Neandertals found in this cave suggests that they lived in small groups of closely related males. Credit: Carles Lalueza-Fox In a cave in Northern Spain, researchers have discovered clues to the identity of the victims of a mass murder committed 49,000 years ago.

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Secrets of the Colosseum

December, 22 2010

Smithsonian

A German archaeologist has finally deciphered the Roman amphitheater's amazing underground labyrinth

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Archaeologists unearth Georgian garden in St Helier

December, 22 2010

BBC

The town house cost £1 when it was bought by the National Trust in 2003 The find was made by a team from the Societe Jersiaise working at the National Trust property in St Helier.

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USC archaeologists locate wreck of Confederate gunboat

December, 22 2010

Live 5 News

An artillery shell from the Brooke (Source: University of South Carolina) A University of South Carolina archaeologist has found the wreck of C.S.S. Peedee, a Confederate gunboat that was destroyed by Confederate forces so it would not be captured by Union forces, in the Pee Dee River.

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New preserve saves ancient tombs from destruction

December, 22 2010

Ammon News

New preserve saves ancient tombs from destruction Hundreds of millennial tombs have been spared destruction with the formation of a new archaeological preserve in the Jordan Valley.

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Archeologists unearth a site of canal lock along Grand Canal in Shandong

December, 22 2010

Global Times

Photo taken on Tuesday shows the site of Tuqiao Lock. Photo: Xinhua A site of the canal lock (called Tuqiao Lock) along the Grand Canal was unearthed completely in Liaocheng, Shandong Province.

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Giants carved into the old Egyptian mysteries

December, 22 2010

The Daily Telegraph

A portrait of the French Egyptologist and cryptographer Jean Francois Champollion who helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. Painted by Leon Cogniet in approximately 1831. Source: The Daily Telegraph TODAY is a double anniversary for Egyptology. On this day 220 years ago, French scholar Jean Francois Champollion, who played a major part in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, was born.

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Swedish scientists study ice man bacteria samples

December, 22 2010

The Local

A team of scientists are currently examining specimens of stomach bacteria from Otzi the Iceman, who lived about 5,300 years ago, at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute (KI).