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Project resumed in Luxor to protect temples from subterranean water

October, 13 2011

Ahram Online

The project is funded by USAID, which has a history of collaboration with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities

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Ghostwriting the Torah?

October, 13 2011

American Friends of Tel Aviv University

New algorithm distinguishes contributors to the Old Testament with high accuracy, says TAU research

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An early Celtic Stonehenge discovered in the Black Forest

October, 13 2011

Heritage Portal

RGZM / Plan of Hallstatt chieftain's grave mounds registered with constellations A huge early Celtic calendar construction has been discovered in the royal tomb of Magdalenenberg, nearby Villingen Schwenningen in the Black Forest.

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Ancient art studio uncovered in Africa

October, 13 2011

Sydney Morning Herald

The shells were found at Blombos Cave in Cape Town near other tools, which suggested the users were scraping off ochre flakes and mixing them with other compounds to form a liquid paint Two shells containing a primitive paint mixture have been uncovered in South Africa, revealing what researchers believe may be the remnants of a 100,000 year old art studio.

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Rare 18th century iron foundry unearthed in archaeological dig on Church Street in Ormskirk

October, 13 2011

Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser

AN archaeological dig has unearthed an 18th century iron foundry in the heart of Ormskirk.

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Researchers trace the roots of Europes Black Death plague

October, 12 2011

ABC News

Six skeletons are lined up in a grave at the Eath Smithfield cemetery excavation, conducted by Museum of London Archaeology. Material from the teeth of those buried in the cemetery was analyzed to produce the genome for the bacterium that caused the Black Death. The Black Death of the medieval era, far from being just a more dangerous form of an already occurring disease, was a newly evolved variant of a harmless bacteria that quickly began its death march across the globe.

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Is Simferopol 2,196 years old?

October, 12 2011

The Day Weekly Digest

SCYTHIAN NEAPOLIS, REMNANTS OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF THE POWERFUL SCYTHIAN KING ARGOS The Crimea is exploring the possibility of re estimating its main city's age. Will this reconcile the Russians and the Crimean Tatars?

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Bronze age landmark knocked over in Pembrokeshire

October, 12 2011

BBC

While it is out of the ground there will be a small archaeological dig to establish how long it had been at the site It had been a landmark for 4,000 years but a standing stone in Pembrokeshire has been knocked over by a vehicle reversing.

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Weather slows dive on Blackbeards pirate ship

October, 12 2011

MSNBC

Divers work with a hose that sucks up small artifacts from Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, to the recovery vessel above. Archaeologists rescuing cannons and other artifacts from pirate vessel off N.C.

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Mystery wreckage found: 200 year old ships knee found in CT River

October, 12 2011

Shoreline Times

Archaeologist John Pfeiffer records measurements of the recently discovered ship's knee with the help of Connecticut River Museum Executive Director Jerry Roberts and Connecticut State Archaeologist Nick Bellantoni. Photos by Susan Daniels. A "ship's knee" found in the mud of the Connecticut River may have come from the wreck of an American ship that was run aground by the British Navy some 200 years ago, marine historians say.