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6,000 medieval fragments turned into mosaic at St Mary' s Church, Castlegate

May, 27 2009

The Press in York

Artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings with Five Sisters mosaic exhibition at St Mary' s Church, Coppergate, York SIX thousand shards of medieval pottery have been used to transform the floor of a York church.

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Healing waters of original Camber Well found in a back garden

May, 27 2009

This is London

An ancient well that London's Camberwell was named after has been unearthed in a woman's back garden

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Crew to do more digging at slave trader's home

May, 27 2009

eTaiwan News

Thomas Richardson II was a wealthy 18th century Newport merchant and captain, a slave trader and member of the city's privileged elite who, researchers say, manufactured rum on his waterfront property and ventured to the Caribbean and Africa.

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Diggings in Troy of St. Petersburg Coming to an End

May, 26 2009

Russia-InfoCenter

Diggings in Troy of St. Petersburg Coming to an End In the next two years all archeological research on the site of the future construction of Okhta Centre in Saint Petersburg may be completed, the director of the archeological expedition in the estuary of River Okhta Pyotr Sorokin said.

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Public invited to archeological dig

May, 26 2009

Beaver Dam Daily Citizen

A team of archeologists and students from UW-Milwaukee led by professional archeologists Dr. Kira Kaufmann and Dr. Robert Jeske will return to Nitschke Mounds County Park on May 30 and 31 to conduct archeological excavations in a continuing search for clues to the prehistoric cultures that once inhabited the site.

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UI archaeology students unearth clues at Plum Grove

May, 26 2009

Gazette Online

Artifacts unearthed by University of Iowa Anthropology students await measurement and removal during an archaeological dig at Plum Grove Historic Farm in Iowa City. There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved in archaeology. It's a lesson University of Iowa anthropology students learn during a three-week dig each May at Plum Grove Historic Home in Iowa City.

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Five-million-year old sloth fossil found in Peru

May, 26 2009

Reuters

The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas, researchers said.

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A bronze cannon, the first of its type discovered in the oceans surrounding Cuba found by fishermen

May, 26 2009

Cuba Headlines

A bronze cannon, the first of its type discovered in the oceans surrounding Cuba found by fishermen According to the local Radio Trinidad station, a group of lobster fishermen working in waters close to the Zaza Afuera Cay found the cannon. The same fishermen discovered the remains of a colonial ship a year earlier in the same location.

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Missing link fossil on display

May, 26 2009

BBC

The fossil of Ida - Darwinius masillae - is 95% complete A cast of a 47-million-year-old fossil thought by some to be the "missing link" is to go on display on Wednesday at London's Natural History Museum.

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4,000-year-old road found in city

May, 25 2009

BBC

The short section of hurdle trackway had eroded out of the marine clay on the Swansea foreshore A Bronze Age road has been found below Swansea's shifting foreshore.