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Stanford scientists scan 2,500-year-old mummy

August, 21 2009

Chicago Sun Times

Scientists trying to unwrap the mysteries of a more than 2,500-year-old mummy believed to be an ancient Egyptian priest conducted computer scans Thursday to help determine how the man died, what was buried with him and what he looked like.

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Ancient remains found in Kivalina

August, 21 2009

The Arctic Sounder

Construction workers unearthed the remains of three humans in Kivalina last month. The bodies are believed to have been members of a mysterious tribal group from about 1,000 years ago.

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Dig opens window on 1694 raid by Native Americans

August, 20 2009

Union Leader

Volunteer archaeologist Sally Strazdins of North Hampton scoops soil during a recent excavation for the Oyster River Environs Archaeology Project on Durham Point. Like gardeners painstakingly at work, the diggers hunch and scrape away layers of soil. Scoop dirt. Screen. Examine. Repeat.

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Pterosaur Runway Found. Shows Birdlike Landing Style

August, 20 2009

National Geographic

Like a prehistoric dance-step diagram, a patch of fossilized beach in France spells out the sequence of a pterosaur's landing, an August 2009 study says. The first fossil footprints of a landing pterosaur have been discovered, a new study says.

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Dig unearths ancient cult figurines of Aphrodite in Susita

August, 20 2009

Haaretz

Remains of an ancient cult to the goddess of love have come to light in the southern Golan Heights site of Susita.

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Earliest American find detailed

August, 20 2009

Globe and Mail

Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.

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Unearthing the early history of Istanbul

August, 20 2009

University of Bristol

Image of one of the artefacts unearthed An international project to excavate sites in and around Istanbul is providing remarkable new insights into the ancient history of an area that has long been the bridging point between Europe and Asia.

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Pharaohs tombs could disappear

August, 19 2009

AFP

The ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings are doomed to disappear within 150 to 500 years if they remain open to tourists, the head of antiquities has warned.

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Hobbits walked out of Africa

August, 19 2009

The Australian

The identity of the tiny human-like creature discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004 has become clearer -- and more astonishing -- thanks to a new analysis by Australian and Indonesian scientists.

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Excavations reveal Roman history at Impington

August, 19 2009

BBC

Archaeologists have found 40 oyster shells intermingled with Roman pottery Archaeological excavations at the site of a former plant nursery, set to be developed for housing, have found evidence of Iron Age and Roman use.