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12:38:34 PM 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]

10:32:13 AM 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]

10:32:13 AM 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]

9:59:06 AM 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]

7:36:18 AM 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]

4:19:46 AM 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]

1:21:46 AM 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]