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www.examiner.com - December 22, 2011 3:43 PM

Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in Georgia's mountains

Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and rises 700 feet (213 m) in...
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cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com - November 29, 2011 10:24 AM

Cosmic Log - Pits add to Stonehenge mystery


Researchers say they've found two pits to the east and west of Stonehenge that may have played a role in an ancient midsummer ceremony.
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www.npr.org - November 22, 2011 12:19 PM

Leonardo's To-Do List

"It is useful," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, to "constantly observe, note, and consider." But when you are Leonardo, what sorts of things are buzzing around in your head?
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www.the-tls.co.uk - October 13, 2011 10:22 PM

Children in the Roman Empire | TLS

There is remarkably little good poetry about very small children. Maybe it’s the lack of sleep that does it; for the first few months it’s hard to remember to put out the bins, let alone write poems. Perhaps the first writer to make a serious attempt to evoke the world of earliest childhood was the Latin poet Statius, a contemporary of the Roman emperor Domitian (ad 81–96).

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www.flickr.com - October 12, 2011 10:08 AM

Flickr: Architecture of Days Gone By

Architecture of Old, (Buildings, Houses); a particular style or fashion of a building, especially one that is typical of a period of history or of a particular place.

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www.pasthorizonspr.com - October 10, 2011 11:38 AM

City beneath the waves: returns to life | Past Horizons

The world's oldest known submerged town has been brought back to life using state of the art CGI and 3D survey data...
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www.stonepages.com - October 10, 2011 11:34 AM

Evidence of earliest mass production found in Israel

If someone described to you that a factory had been set up to mass produce tools and weapons and that, attached to the factory there was a kitchen and a canteen, you would probably accept this as a description of a modern day industrial area in any city or town around the world. But what if this factory was 40,000 years old? Well, until recently, you would have said that they were talking about the earliest found example of mass production

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www.pasthorizonspr.com - October 5, 2011 3:59 PM

Litcham Cryptogram: a medieval mystery

A community archaeology project based in Norfolk has stumbled upon a medieval mystery that has so far defied archaeologists and historians to unravel its meaning.
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www.stonepages.com - October 5, 2011 3:23 PM

Unexpected trove of artifacts discovered near Stonehenge

An archeological treasure trove unearthed by a team from the Open University could transform our understanding of Stonehenge. The most significant artifacts uncovered are two carved ducks, the first of their kind to be found in Britain.
The ducks were likely, say the team, to be a result of the Bronze Age tradition of carving animal figurines which were then thrown into water as offerings.

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www.kuriositas.com - October 3, 2011 11:02 AM

Bled Island – Slovenia’s Fairy Tale Isle ~ Kuriositas

Lake Bled in Slovenia has had visitors for thousands of years. Little wonder when you consider its mild climate and beautiful surroundings.

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www.howtobearetronaut.com - October 3, 2011 9:50 AM

Ancient Chariot Fleet Unearthed in China

'5 millenia old chariots and 12 horse skeletons were found in a tomb pit in the city of Luoyang in central China.
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lastdaysoftheincas.com - September 16, 2011 2:18 PM

Inca Girl, Frozen for 500 Years, Now On Display : Kim MacQuarrie’s Peru & South America Blog

The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice…

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blogs.smithsonianmag.com - September 7, 2011 2:58 PM

Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza | Past Imperfect

No structure in the world is more mysterious than the Great Pyramid. But who first broke into its well-guarded interior, and when? And what did they find there?
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www.telegraph.co.uk - November 29, 2011 10:37 AM

British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online - Telegraph

Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant
events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today in
a new archive created by the British Library.
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adage.com - November 28, 2011 1:16 PM

Study: Each Facebook Fan Worth $10 on Average to Brands < BS

Social-media agency SocialCode is the latest firm to try to calculate the value of a Facebook fan as part of a new study. Their verdict: about $10 a fan.
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www.nytimes.com - October 19, 2011 2:04 PM

‘Secrets of Archimedes’ at Walters in Baltimore

An ancient volume of Archimedes, at one point used as a prayer book, is restored and on view at the Walters Art Museum.
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news.discovery.com - October 13, 2011 9:38 PM

Bible's Authors Decoded by Computer

An algorithm that analyzes words and their distribution offers hints about the Bible's authors.
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usa.greekreporter.com - October 12, 2011 12:49 AM

Columbus Day: The Theory Supporting that Christopher Columbus Was Greek

The exact origin of Christopher Columbus has been a source of speculation since the 19th century. Recent publications claim that the great admiral might have been Greek.
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www.heritagedaily.com - October 10, 2011 11:37 AM

World's oldest temples were not temples at all

Ancient structures uncovered in Turkey and thought to be the world’s oldest temples may not have been strictly religious buildings after all, according to an article in the October issue of Current Anthropology.
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www.sciencedaily.com - October 10, 2011 11:32 AM

Giant 'kraken' lair discovered: Cunning sea monster that preyed on ichthyosaurs

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan.
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news.discovery.com - October 5, 2011 3:25 PM

Prehistoric Child Art Found in Caves

Children as young as two years used their fingers to create designs on a cave's walls and ceilings.
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www.bbc.co.uk - October 5, 2011 3:22 PM

British-Romano salting site find

Archaeologists have been unearthing the story of a salt making site dating back to 25AD on the Lincolnshire fens.
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www.kuriositas.com - October 3, 2011 11:00 AM

Merlin’s Camelot - Château de Pierrefonds ~ Kuriositas

Many people believe that the Camelot seen in the TV series is an elaborate, expensive set. In fact, the place exists in reality. Situated North of Paris near the Forest of Compiègne, Château de Pierrefonds makes the perfect setting for the Camelot of the Arthurian legend re-imagined for the twenty first century.

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www.forbes.com - September 27, 2011 11:49 AM

Google is Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls - Forbes

Google has partnered with the Israel Museum to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them accessible.
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www.msnbc.msn.com - September 7, 2011 3:46 PM

Unique Roman gladiator school unearthed

They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational scientific discovery unveiled Monday: The well-preserved ruins of a gladiator school in Austria.
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