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Early Somalia Life Depicted In Cave Paintings

April, 30 2011

RedOrbit

Early Somalia Life Depicted In Cave Paintings Known today for its bloody conflicts and instability, Somalia's little known history can be found in the colorful cave paintings of animals and humans discovered in 2002 by a French archaeology team.

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Monkeys, Brains, and Human Evolution: New Findings

April, 30 2011

Popular Archaeology

An MRI of brain of patient with severe form of microcephaly compared to a control subject. A team of researchers have found that mutations in a single gene may cause large discrepancy in size of the cerebral cortex. Courtesy Yale University School of Medicine. Two recently conducted studies may add some possible new revelations related to our understanding of human or primate evolution.

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A digital archive for Cyprus antiquities

April, 30 2011

Cyprus Mail

GETTING information on Cyprus' antiquities used to be a chore discouraging potential hobbyists and frustrating specialists who were forced to do a lot of running around but this will hopefully change with the imminent completion of a digitisation programme.

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Did Peking Man wield a spear?

April, 30 2011

Unreported Heritage News

A replica of the skull of Peking Man. New research indicates that this group of Homo erectus used spears and sophisticated butchering tools. Photo by Yan Li, CC Attribution share-alike 3.0 unported New research suggests early humans were assembling weapons in China 700,000 years ago

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Oldest remains of Caspian Horse discovered in North of Iran

April, 30 2011

Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies

An impression from the seal of Darius the Great, showing Caspian horses are pulling his chariot During the eighth season of archaeological research in Gohar Tappeh, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a horse identified as the Caspian also known as the Mzandarn Horse, the oldest breed of horse in the world still in existence.

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Lost City Revealed Under Centuries of Jungle Growth

April, 28 2011

National Geographic

Archaeologist Brigitte Kovacevich in a looters' tunnel inside the pyramid at the Head of Stone site. A hundred ancient Maya buildings detected under Guatemala rain forest.

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The Meaning of Words: New Evidence of Ancient Maya History

April, 28 2011

National Geographic

Frederick Catherwood's Lithograph of Stela D at Copan, Honduras 1844. The ancient Maya culture flourished in Mesoamerica. At the height of their splendor there's an overwhelming rise in architectural construction, the type of buildings that pay homage to their rulers and their ancestors.

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Girl murdered by Roman soldiers in north Kent

April, 28 2011

BBC

Wounds suggest the girl was stabbed in the back of the head with a Roman sword The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers has been discovered in north Kent.

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We have just scratched the surface: Divers find oldest shipwreck in the Caribbean

April, 28 2011

Daily Mail

Value check: Most of the coins don't have dates on, so the team have been busy cleaning them up and trawling through reference books to identify them Silver coins and jade figurines from 1500s discovered off Dominican Republic