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Peruvian Mummies, Seashells Share Historical Climate Insight

April, 22 2010

NewsWise

Shells from mollusks presented to the dead during ancient funeral ceremonies are keys to helping a geologist gauge ocean movements near the Peruvian coast from as much as 13,000 years ago.

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French archaeologists begin digs in north Iraq

April, 22 2010

MSNBC

Area is more than 8,000 years old and successive layers of settlements.

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Archaeological Sites in Syria Mark Location of Farming from 10th Millennium BC

April, 22 2010

Global Arab Network

Archaeological Sites in Syria Mark Location of Farming from 10th Millennium BC Excavations began in the various archaeological sites that once housed farming communities, including Tel al Abar 3 sites on the left bank of the Euphrates River (northern Syria) which dates back to the 10th millennium BC.

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Amazing rock cut tomb in Sardinia

April, 22 2010

Stone Pages

Full view of the spirals and the ceiling of the tomb Sardinia is an Italian island known mainly among archaeologists for its nuraghes ancient towers somewhat reminiscent of Scottish brochs, but far more numerous and quite elaborate. On the island you will find a great number of other ancient wonders: from the so called 'giants tombs' to the rock cut tombs locally known as 'domus de janas' (houses of the fairies) .

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Discovery of a primate more than 11 million years old

April, 22 2010

EurekAlert

This is the jaw of a male Pliopithecus canmatensis. Catalan researchers have discovered in the rubbish dump of Can Mata in the Valles Penedes basin (Catalonia) a new species of Pliopithecus primate, considered an extinct family of primitive Catarrhini primates (or "Old World monkeys"). The fragments of jaw and molars found in this large site demonstrate that Pliopithecus canmatensis belongs to this group, which includes the first Catarrhini that dispersed from Africa to Eurasia.

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Roman altar stone from 200AD discovered

April, 22 2010

East Lothian Courier

Roman altar stone from 200AD discovered EAST Lothian Council was forced to call a halt to work at a Musselburgh park following a 1,900 year old archaeological find that has been described as "the most significant find of its type in the last hundred years".

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Ancient Hereford ditch was royal city boundary

April, 21 2010

BBC

The image shows how the city would look as an archaeological site A Bronze Age earth ditch has been found in Hereford which archaeologists say may have been used to mark the city's old tax boundary.

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Nanostructure of 5,000 year old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process

April, 21 2010

PhysOrg

Using cutting edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well preserved for thousands of years.

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Archaeologists find Battle of Prestonpans took place at different location

April, 21 2010

STV

Researchers find that historic battle took places further east than had previously been thought.

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Bulgarian Builders Almost Ruin Thrace Archaeology Site

April, 21 2010

Novinite

Part of the remains of the Ancient Thracian city of Kabile Specialists from the Yambol History Museum have prevented the destruction of a valuable archaeological site during road construction in Southeastern Bulgaria.