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Ancient cultural treasures are common casualties in military conflicts. But an international team of archeologists is working together with soldiers all over the world to protect valuable cultural artifacts. 
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The chance finding of a prehistoric toy has led archaeologists in Turkey to even more finds.
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Don't forget to sign up for ANTH-202: Introduction to Archaeology! This is a great opportunity to learn how archaeological research is conceived, planned, and carried out, from survey and excavation to analysis of finds and ...
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Divers off the coast of Birka, an ancient Viking village near Stockholm, have uncovered 100 metre long jetties suggesting a coastal marketplace that was not previously imagined.
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Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a number of interesting finds from various periods and the city now wants to expand excavations at the Forum site.
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Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city's main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago.
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A tablet found at the Ziyarettepe excavation area has stirred excitement among scientists and archaeologists. The tablet, which belongs to third century has writings in "unknown language."
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Female-gladiator fights appear to have been rare spectacles in the Roman Empire. But new analysis of a statue in a German museum adds to the evidence that trained women did fight to the death in ancient amphitheaters, ...
Marshall Shogun Dore's curator insight,
May 5, 2013 9:00 AM
How would this discovery impact on our understanding of the roles of women in ancient Rome? What evidence suggest that the statue is a female gladiator? 
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November 21, 2013 6:05 PM
This scoop looks into an ancient artifact held in a German Museum in Hamburg that may prove evidences that women fought in battles in the Colessuem in Rome.
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Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and his body is believed to have been buried in the English city of Leicester, but did it remain there and is it still there?
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B WASHINGTON.- /B Vast deserts and ancient ruins have defined imagery of the Middle East since the advent of photography in the 19th century.
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Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 24 / Trend I.Isabalayeva / The Archaeology and Ethnography Institute has discovered in the ancient village of Shahtakhti artifacts dating back to the Eneolithic age, research officer Ghahraman Aghayev told Trend on Friday.
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RedOrbitScientists Model Language On Ancient And Contemporary VocabulariesRedOrbitAccording to a new report published in the journal Science, a team of international researchers modeled a language family tree based on the vocabularies of 103...
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A new UNESCO–IAU online Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy has been launched at the IAU’s 28th General Assembly in Beijing, China.
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Few things are as effective as a good myth when it comes to uniting a people or building a nation.
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Scholars point out name on 6th century BCE find should be reversed.
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20th Annual Archaeology Weekend at the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological ...Archaeological Institute of America Latest NewsThe Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex, operated by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, is pleased to...
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Within the relative comfort of a 21st century museum, it is easy to forget the sacrifices, challenges, and dedication involved in the discovery of antiquities.
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A new museum reopens an old French historical dispute about the true site of Rome's defeat of the Gauls at Alesia, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports.that Alesia had now been officially identified as Alise-Sainte-Reine.
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Robert Killick is returning to the Dh10m Ur Region Archaeology Project which is hoped will herald a golden era for such exploration in the cradle of civilisation, writes Rym Ghazal.
The target site is "Tell Khaiber", which is about 20 kilometres from the ancient city of Ur, near Nasiriyah, in Thi Qar province. It is here, in southern Iraq, that civilisation began more than 5,000 years ago.
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January 24, 2014 5:03 PM
Archeologist Robert Killick discusses the Tell Khaiber excavation site near Ur in southern Iraq. Donkeys were found buried in one of the graves. Also discussed are the dangers of working in a conflict zone.
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TREES are a gift to students of the past. An entire discipline, known as dendrochronology, is devoted to using tree rings to date ancient wooden objects and buildings. Linguistic archaeologists, it seems, share these arboreal inclinations, though the trees they examine are of an altogether different species.
In 2003 a team led by Quentin Atkinson, of the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, employed a computer to generate a genealogical tree of Indo-European languages. Their model put the birth of the family, which includes languages as seemingly diverse as Icelandic and Iranian, between 9,800 and 7,800 years ago.
This was consistent with the idea that it stemmed from Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey, whence it spread with the expansion of farming. A rival proposal, that their origin amid the semi-nomadic, pastoralist tribes in the steppes north of the Caspian Sea, supposes their progenitor to be several thousand years younger.
Is it possible to detect the roots of language?
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TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of...
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Archaeology News from Past Horizons : What was it like to be a man in the Middle Ages?
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The tiny Northumberland village of Kirknewton is about to celebrate its importance in British history and archaeology with an ambitious week-long festival.
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Greek ReporterVisiting Olympia, the Βirthplace of the Ancient OlympicsGreek ReporterOlympia was the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, which were celebrated every four years by the Greeks.
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For almost three years the 2,500-year-old ancient Greek statues representing warriors have been in the Calabrian regional government's headquarters, undergoing a long-awaited restoration. A host of chemical, laser and electromagnetic tests designed to help experts better understand where the statues came from, and who created them, were also carried out. Via island
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