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Armed Robbers Hit Archaeology Museum in Ancient Olympia
The AtlanticWire
Two men in ski masks reportedly used hammers and a gun to smash their way into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia during an early morning shift change and "immobilized" one of the guards. They then shattered display case and removed dozens of items [more]
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ASI to conduct 3D Laser scan of Konark Temple
IBNLive.com - New Delhi,India
BHUBANESWAR: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Thursday assured the State Government of timely restoration of Jagamohan and Singhadwar of Jagannath Temple in Puri. ASI Director-General Goutam Sengupta who met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik . [more]
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Unearthing the past of Australia's first Catholic Saint
ABC Online - Australia
EMILY BOURKE: Archaeologists say they're confident they've found the remains of a stable where Australia's first Catholic Saint, Mary MacKillop, set up her first school. A team from Flinders University is sifting through the soil at Penola in South . [more]
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Prehistoric cybermen? Sardinia's lost warriors rise from the dust
Independent
Archaeologists and conservation experts on the Italian island of Sardinia have succeeded in re-assembling literally thousands of fragments of smashed sculpture to recreate a small yet unique army of life-size stone warriors which were originally ... [more]
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Hipparion Skull Fossil Found in NW China
CRIENGLISH.com - Beijing,China
... said Deng Tao, researcher with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [more]
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Tooth is key to learning more about Vero Man, archaeologist says at lecture
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA
By Janet Begley VERO BEACH — If an excavation takes place at the old Vero Man site, noted Smithsonian archaeologist Dennis Stanford knows exactly what he wants scientists to find — a tooth. Stanford was at the Emerson Center in Vero Beach on Thursday [more]
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Archaeology students make surprising finds at tabernacle dig site
KSL-TV
Little by little, archaeologists and students from BYU are working in cooperation with the Church History and Temple departments of the LDS Church to unearth Provo's first Tabernacle — a building known as "the old meetinghouse. [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Science Magazine (blog)
Humans first took the leap from village life to urban sprawl in Mesopotamia sometime during the 4th millennium BCE in what archaeologists call the Uruk phase, named after a southern Iraq metropolis. But recent excavations in Kuwait, Syria, Iran, ... [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England may have been an attempt to mimic a sound-based illusion. If two pipers were to play in a field, observers walking around the musicians would hear a strange effect, ... [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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The Republic
The Republic State historic archaeologist Cordelia Snow said the new date more closely meshes with the archaeology at the palace. "They're not going to have a fully grown building in 1610," she said. "I can't date the foundation. But the 1618-1620 pe [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Mountain Xpress - Asheville,NC,USA
Mountain Xpress By Katie Rose Anderson on 02/16/2012 03:06 PM David Givens, Senior Staff Archaeologist with the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, will present a program called “Lost and Found: Rediscovering America's Birthplace,” in Broyh [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Mountain Xpress - Asheville,NC,USA
By Katie Rose Anderson on 02/16/2012 03:06 PM David Givens, Senior Staff Archaeologist with the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, will present a program called “Lost and Found: Rediscovering America's Birthplace,” in Broyhill Chapel, ... [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Albany Democrat Herald
O'Grady, an archaeologist with the UO archaeology field school, has been using aerial photography to document the medicine wheels, which are large circular stone formations, sometimes with spokes radiating from the center. [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Bethel College News - North Newton,KS,USA
On Sunday, April 15, David T. Hughes from Wichita State University will present “Sand Creek: Prehistoric Archaeology, Small Towns and Big Effects.” The Feb. 26 program with Timothy Weston serves as the grand opening of the new special exhibition. [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Ahram Online
The second boat, found along with the first one in 1954 by late Egyptian archaeologist Kamal El-Malak, is currently on display at a special museum on the northern side of Khufu's Great Pyramid. The first boat was removed piece by piece and ... [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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GardenNews.biz (press release)
March is Archaeology & Heritage Awareness Month in Arizona, and the Kaibab National Forest is celebrating by providing free programs to the public every Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon throughout the month. Scheduled events include a Thursday [more]
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Thursday, February 16
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Orissadiary.com
Report by OrissaDiary.com bureau; Bhubaneswar: Archaeological Survey of India DG Gautam Sengupta meets Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Bhubaneswar on Thursday at Secretariat. As per the Chief Minister's office press statement both discussed . [more]
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