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Dominican archaeologist closes in on Cleopatra, top Egyptologist says

November, 18 2009

Dominican Today

Zahi Hawas "That's the mystery of the past, we've found doors as small as 20 by 20 centimeters which lead to great chambers," revealed the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, regarding the search for Cleopatra's tomb by a Dominican Egyptian team.

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Historic shipwreck discovered

November, 18 2009

Euro Weekly News

The shipwreck is believed to be the remains of a frigate or a galleon

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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls really mean?

November, 18 2009

Toronto Star

Segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls Turmoil, grudges play a role in language of ancient documents

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Treasure trove of history found at SugarHouse site

November, 18 2009

Philadelphia Inquirer

Researchers flush the dirt of centuries from SugarHouse relics, some of which date to 1500 B.C. - about 3,200 years before Penn inked his treaty with the Lenapes just a few blocks away. Under a tent on the grounds of the future SugarHouse Casino, archaeologists sift through buckets of debris, picking out and bagging the choicest broken bits.

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Early Humans May Have Been Hobbits, Scientists Say

November, 18 2009

Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

In a strange case of science imitating art, one hobbit has again become the center of a heated and ongoing conflict.

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Ancient Weapons Dug Up by Archaeologists in England

November, 17 2009

Science Daily

Over 5000 worked flints came from one small area, including flint cores used for tool creation, blades, flakes and 'debitage' (small chips from tool-working), and scrapers, piercers and microlith tools with the latter being used in composite arrowheads. Staff at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have been excited by the results from a recently excavated major Prehistoric site at Asfordby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

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Archaeologists Find preColumbian Cemetery in Costa Rica

November, 17 2009

Costa Rica Travel News

The excavation site is located just north of Guapiles in route to Limon An indigenous cementery was uncovered within a two hectare plot of land in Guapiles, Costa Rica, about an hour and a half east of San Jose.

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Fossil Found and Excavated by Bethel Couple

November, 17 2009

Bethel University News

Part of the Mososaur fossil found and excavated by the Anderson family. For more than a decade, Bethel biology professor Bryan Anderson C '91, his wife Laura Anderson C '91, and their three children, Steve, Jeni, and Becky, traveled as often as they could to a remote area in western Kansas to visit relatives and look for fossils. Eight years ago, those long trips were rewarded when Laura discovered the vertebrae of a fossil sticking out of an eroded hill.

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More on The Vanished Army: Solving an Ancient Egyptian Mystery

November, 17 2009

Time

An ancient Persian stone relief in Persepolis, Iran. In 525 BC, the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara desert because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination.