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The archaeology news of the week in audio, brought to you by The Archaeology Channel, compiled and written by Michelle Hilling of Archaeologica.org and read by Laura Kelley. The Audio News from Archaeologica is compiled from Archaeologica.org's daily news updates.
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ News for May 10 2013 to May 16 2013
Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 20, 2013
News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- 2300-year-old Maya pyramid now road rubble
(details)
- Byzantine mosaic uncovered in Israel
(details)
- First colonists in New Zealand identified by bones and teeth
(details)
- Ancient Egyptians liked hot times in the oasis
(details)
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News for May 3 2013 to May 9 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 13, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- New system of lines in Peru spells out sacred astronomical alignments
(details)
- New translations suggest the famous hanging garden of Babylon was really in Nineveh
(details)
- New technology helps map underwater medieval town
(details)
- Late Roman burials in Germany show DNA evidence of death from plague
(details)
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News for April 26 2013 to May 2 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 6, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Hundreds of little yellow balls are newest puzzle at Teotihuacan
(details)
- Excavators race to salvage giant communal stone tombs in UAR
(details)
- New skeletal evidence confirms starving Jamestown colonists ate their own
(details)
- Swedish rune stone rediscovered after 300-year disappearance
(details)
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News for April 19 2013 to April 25 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 29, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Veracruz petroglyphs include priest figure
(details)
- Ancient burial in Britain was wealthy woman from the Copper Age
(details)
- Romanian tomb yields medieval lovers, hands still clasped in death
(details)
- Egyptian animal bones show what workers on the pyramids were fed
(details)
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News for April 14 2013 to April 19 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 22, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- French burials shed light on Celtic civilization (details)
- Aboriginal artwork dates back tens of thousands of years (details)
- Retaining wall points to pre-Columbian Gulf Coast port (details)
- 800-year-old recipes to be taste-tasted (details)
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News for April 7 2013 to April 13 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 15, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Dating methods combine to tie Maya dates to European calendar (details)
- Giant stone cairn found submerged below Sea of Galilee (details)
- New analysis shows pottery started with Ice Age hunter-gatherers cooking fish (details)
- Easter Island statue reveals more through digital imaging (details)
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News for March 31 2013 to April 6 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 8, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Jewish life in Middle Ages revealed in Cologne excavation (details)
- 2000-year-old battering ram undergoes new analysis (details)
- 17th Dynasty royal cemetery found in Luxor (details)
- Revolutionary War POW camp reveals little-known aspect of American history (details)
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News for March 24 2013 to March 30 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 1, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Afghanistan’s financial straits both threaten, and protect, huge Buddhist site (details)
- New work at ancient Ur is first foreign excavation since the '30s (details)
- Network analysis shows prehistoric Southwest had its own kind of social networking (details)
- Greco-Roman site in Turkey held famous, and deadly, ancient shrine (details)
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News for March 17 2013 to March 23 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 25, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Pre-Viking wool tunic just one of many artifacts revealed by melting glaciers (details)
- Hopes high that Native American burial mounds will go on National Register (details)
- Baltic monuments point to importance of Bronze Age maritime network (details)
- Scuttled ships and trading weights found in sunken Egyptian city (details)
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News for March 10 2013 to March 16 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 18, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Coral tool chemistry measures migrations across early Polynesia (details)
- Chinese coin on East African island shows early long-range trade (details)
- Ancient German reindeer hunters developed first fishhooks (details)
- Early estate in D.C. area yields evidence of slavery in the colonial era (details)
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News for March 3 2013 to March 9 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 11, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Roman British graves marked with ditches and fences (details)
- Saharan burial site used for millennia (details)
- Chinese armor predates Terra Cotta Warriors by hundreds of years (details)
- Oregon site suggests ancient human occupation (details)
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News for February 24 to March 2 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 4, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Ancient Roman temple of Jupiter found (details)
- Analysis of dust reveals remains of Richard’s lionheart(details)
- Prehistoric pipe residues show tobacco’s early use in Pacific Northwest (details)
- Egyptian shoes tell stories of advanced construction, sore feet, and a limp (details)
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News for February 17 to February 23 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 25, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Very ancient temple discovered near Lima, Peru (details)
- Gold and weapons accompanied Russian warrior after death (details)
- Mudbrick pyramid of King Ramses’ vizier found at Luxor (details)
- Indian village boasts huge Indus Civilization site (details)
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News for February 10 to February 16 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 18, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Hellenistic necropolis uncovered in Alexandria (details)
- Sea birds symbolized migration of souls for vanished Newfoundland culture (details)
- New computer program can reconstruct early languages (details)
- Fire-god shrine found on top of the Pyramid of the Sun (details)
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News for February 3 to February 9 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 11, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Ancient rock art uncovered in Scottish Highlands (details)
- Pilgrims’ First Meeting House possibly discovered in Massachusetts (details)
- King Richard III found in a parking lot (details)
- 2000-year-old pyramids excavated in Sudan (details)
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News for January 27 to February 2 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Tues, Feb 5, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Soil studies show Poverty Point mound rose within months, not years (details)
- Sicilian mummies tell stories of life and death (details)
- Hunley cleaning process suggests entirely new cause of its sinking (details)
- Nabatean city re-opened after vandalism repairs (details)
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News for January 20 to January 26 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 28, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Roman researchers find 19th century benchmark used to measure shape of earth (details)
- Rare jade spoon uncovered in situ in Central America (details)
- Turkish weaving dates back millennia (details)
- Mexican petroglyph panel discovered in new archaeological zone (details)
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News for January 13 to January 19 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 21, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Shaman’s crystal cache found in Panama (details)
- Colosseum graffiti shows where crowds provided their own entertainment (details)
- German burial shows complexity of early Celtic culture (details)
- Theft of crucial artifact from ancient Shiloh (details)
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News for January 6 to January 12 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 14, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Gold coin cache discovered in Iraq (details)
- Mini dome may have been model for Italian cathedral (details)
- Prehispanic Mexicans decorated their dead (details)
- Nothing new under the volcano: wall posts point to social networks in Pompeii (details)
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News for December 30 2012 to January 5 2013 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 7, 2013News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- New work begins at famous Roman shipwreck (details)
- New site holds eight million mummies, mainly dogs (details)
- New Maya city excavations show continuity, then abrupt abandonment (details)
- New find in Meroë shows stylishly plump princess (details)
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News for December 23 to December 29, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Dec 31, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Roman era arts center excavated in the center of Rome (details)
- 4000-year-old weapons found near Mazatlan (details)
- Ritual building uncovered at biblical site near Jerusalem(details)
- Native American ritual burial grounds discovered in Maryland (details)
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News for December 16 to December 22, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Dec 24, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Early Japanese warrior died facing wrath of the volcano (details)
- Cemetery in Sonora shows 1000-year-old culture influenced by Mesoamerica (details)
- Ramses III: a murder wrapped in a mummy (details)
- World’s oldest wood structures provide new insight on Neolithic expansion into Europe (details)
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News for December 9 to December 15, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Dec 17, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Talk about aged! Evidence of European cheesemaking dates back 7000 years (details)
- Party On! Cauldrons and cattle skulls evidence of Iron-Age feast (details)
- Ancient embalmers overlooked a tool (details)
- Garden shed turns out to be 18th century woodworking shop (details)
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News for December 2 to December 8, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Dec 10, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Terracotta warriors excavation grows to include vast palace (details)
- Geological evidence shows role of drought in Sumeria’s ancient end (details)
- New research deep in Maya caves shows early religious use (details)
- Secrets of Egypt’s largest sarcophagus decoded (details)
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News for November 25 to December 1, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Dec 3, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Stone Age viticulture verified in Turkey (details)
- Silver and gold playing cards date back 400 years (details)
- Microbreweries aren’t so modern after all (details)
- Clay balls were part of Maya kitchens (details)
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News for November 18 to November 24, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Nov 26, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Massive city gate highlights Bronze Age dig in Jordan (details)
- Thieves steal rock art from Sierra Nevada sacred site (details)
- Mesolithic house foundations are Britain’s first (details)
- New chemical analysis shows how New World silver traveled to Europe (details)
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News for November 11 to November 17, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Nov 19, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Maya infant burials reveal poor health and malnutrition (details)
- 3000 year old Pakistani graves point to complex burial rituals (details)
- Near-perfect Civil War site unearthed in Virginia (details)
- Modern war rages around ancient biblical battle site (details)
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News for November 4 to November 10, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Nov 12, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Early Neolithic hoard shows life in Central Europe, 8000 years ago (details)
- New dating technique puts precise range on Polynesian coral files (details)
- Norway finds medieval copper smelter, and a mystery (details)
- Precise precipitation record links climate change and Maya collapse (details)
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News for October 28 to November 3, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Nov 5, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Archaeologists party in 1400-year-old Anglo-Saxon feasting hall (details)
- Mysterious Princess’s tomb found near Cairo details)
- Cave home of the Island of Blue Dolphins’ woman may have been located (details)
- Oldest prehistoric European town excavated in Bulgaria(details)
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News for October 21 to October 27, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Oct 29, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Large early Hindu temple remains found in Bali(details)
- Crowdsourcing is newest tool in race to decipher old language details)
- New tomb marks earliest years of Maya culture (details)
- Neolithic figurine from northern Spain is ancient male idol(details)
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News for October 14 to October 20, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Oct 22, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Building blocks for Angkor Wat floated to site via canals(details)
- Ancient Troy to be re-excavated details)
- Wandering cat reveals ancient Roman CAT-acomb (details)
- Vikings and Native Americans may have interacted on Baffin Island(details)
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News for October 7 to October 13, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Oct 15, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Spanish team finds concrete evidence of the spot where Caesar died(details)
- Deep excavations trace Thai culture’s long development details)
- British Columbia site yields thousands of artifacts showing long prehistory of the area (details)
- 3D laser scan of Stonehenge reveals new details of construction – and sometimes destruction (details)
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News for September 30 to October 6, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Oct 8, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Were there dentists in the Stone Age?(details)
- Burial place of great Maya queen revealed by alabaster jar details)
- Bronze Age jeweler turns out to be a woman (details)
- Luxurious Minoan building found in Crete (details)
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News for September 23 to September 29, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Oct 1, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- German site offers unique insights on Aurignacian culture (details)
- Battlefield found from Oregon’s Indian wars details)
- Spanish Bronze Age fortress shows eastern Mediterranean influence (details)
- Bronze Age trade shown by chemical analysis of stinging nettle cloth (details)
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News for September 16 to September 22, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Sep 24, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Italian tunnels lead to Etruscan pyramidal chambers (details)
- 1000-year-old village found in Philippines details)
- Did a comet cause an ice age 12,900 years ago? (details)
- Poolside mosaic from Roman times uncovered in Turkey (details)
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News for September 9 to September 15, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Sep 17, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- German military site was one of Caesar's (details)
- New Mayan mural turns up during home remodeling details)
- New skeletal study confirms Hopewell were egalitarian and gender-equal (details)
- Mummy case is saved by engineering and a little bit of LEGO (details)
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News for September 2 to September 8, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Sep 10, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Ancient Peruvian tomb may have been designed to flood (details)
- 500-year-old Alaskan settlement disappearing into Bering Sea details)
- King Richard III long-lost burial church uncovered (details)
- Wonderfully preserved Roman shipwreck excavated on French Riviera (details)
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News for August 26 to September 1, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Sep 3, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Tibetan tomb is from early, pre-Buddhist kingdom (details)
- Giant jaguar sculpture found in site that pre-dates the Maya details)
- Lost language comes to light on ancient clay tablet from Turkey (details)
- Oklahoma team excavates early bison kill site (details)
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News for August 19 to August 25, 2012 Author: ArchAuthor: aeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Aug 27, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Curses!” Roman “bad spell” table found in England (details)
- School for African-American children located in Colonial Williamsburg details)
- Scottish site reveals Iron Age and Viking settlements (details)
- Greek poem honoring Nero’s wife deciphered (details)
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News for August 12 to August 18, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Aug 20, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Danish bog holds hundreds of warriors killed 2,000 years ago (details)
- Giant freeze-dryer will conserve colonial ship(details)
- Zapotec burial tomb shows local differences in play(details)
- Greenland shipwreck is vessel that carried doomed South Pole explorer(details)
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News for August 5 to August 11, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Aug 13, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Piles of human bones unearthed in Aztec burial (details)
- Ancient food transport ship found buried off Italian coast(details)
- Native Americans drank caffeinated "black drink" (details)
- Ancient Egyptian custom of cutting off enemies’ hands verified(details)
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News for July 29 to August 4, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Aug 6, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Public sees Basque history uncovered in new Idaho excavation (details)
- Turkish sculptures reveal early empires of 1000 BC(details)
- Traces of chocolate found on northern Maya dishes (details)
- Egyptian First Dynasty funeral boat is oldest ever found(details)
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News for July 22nd to July 28th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jul 30, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Hittite lion statues perplex researchers(details)
- Northern Ireland bog site in danger of destruction(details)
- First evidence of Ice Age ceramic figures in southeastern Europe found
in Croatia (details)
- Wisconsin prehistoric village explored during highway construction(details)
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News for July 15th to July 21st, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jul 23, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Charred olive pit is clue to complexity of Iron Age England(details)
- New Maya temple stood out with giant red masks of the sun(details)
- Chinese tomb illustrates era of the Three Warring Kingdoms (details)
- Hellenistic harbor found on Israeli seacoast(details)
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News for July 8th to July 14th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jul 16, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- De Soto’s route through Florida found on archaeologist’s land(details)
- Germany may be home to earliest Viking town in historical record(details)
- First humans in Americas apparently were not Clovis! (details)
- Research in North Sea reveals long-lost world(details)
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News for July 1 to 7, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jul 9, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Chinese find makes pottery much older than first farmers (details)
- Islamic extremists in Mali attack an ancient shrine(details)
- New finds add to information on Wari culture of Peru (details)
- Pakistani province races to save Mohenjo-daro from decay(details)
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News for June 24 to 30, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jul 2, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Downtown Phoenix construction site reveals ancient artifacts (details)
- Palestinian village caught between World Heritage site and Israeli defense plan(details)
- News Flash! New evidence shows Mayans did not think world would end in 2012! (details)
- Oldest European Neolithic bow found in Spain(details)
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News for June 17 to 23, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jun 25, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Medieval Uzbek site sees looting by both locals and officials (details)
- Rare pocket sundial found at Jamestown(details)
- Oldest pearl found in Arabian cemetery (details)
- Alaskan lake sediment core data show ice-free travel was possible by 17,000 years ago(details)
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News for June 10 to 16, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jun 18, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Dutch explorers created early postal system on Madagascar beach (details)
- Racial tension existed in early Annapolis (details)
- Welsh building could be older than the pyramids (details)
- 100 more soldiers march in China’s terracotta army(details)
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News for June 3 to 9, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jun 11, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Early Scottish settlement shows sophisticated strategies to cool food, heat homes
(details)
- Israeli hoard of coins and jewelry dates to Bar Kokhba revolts (details)
- Early statue of Buddha found in Afghanistan (details)
- Shakespeare’s first theatre found (details)
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News for May 27th to June 2nd, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jun 4, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Ancient Roman shipwreck challenges theories that ancient mariners stuck to coastlines
(details)
- Mexican altar representing rain dates back 2500 years (details)
- Social inequality is more ancient than we think (details)
- Looters damage burial mounds in Illinois (details)
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News for May 20 to May 26, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Tue, May 29, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Scottish graveyard find is ancient Christian "cursing stone" (details)
- Israeli jewelry cache is 3000 years old (details)
- Early tomb at Pachacamac holds 80 burials (details)
- At 42,000 years, bone flutes from German cave mark dawn of instrumental music (details)
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News for May 13 to May 19, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 21, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Cyprus is home to dogs, cats and oldest farming village in the Mediterranean (details)
- Earliest wall art discovered on French limestone(details)
- 900 year-old-pot discovered on middle school field trip (details)
- Ancient Mesoamericans were big time sports fans (details)
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News for May 6 to May 12, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 14, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Oldest known Mayan astronomical tables discovered, casting further doubt on 2012 end of the world predictions (details)
- Burial rituals shed light on history of people who once inhabited Cambodian mountains (details)
- Exhumed skulls from Spain dating to the Middle Ages display marks of trepanation (details)
- Ancient language of first “barbarians” discovered amid ruins of 2800-year old Middle Eastern palace (details)
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News for April 29th to May 5th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, May 7, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Students on practice dig find real, and really unexpected, Roman temple(details)
- New clue hints Roanoke’s Lost Colony may be under a golf course (details)
- Isotope analysis suggests mass burial in Oxford is grave of Viking raiders (details)
- Egyptian style chairs gave early Northern chieftains a lift (details)
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News for April 22 to 28, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 30, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Intact Roman ship from AD 200s included smuggled cargo(details)
- Ritual baths found in ancient caves show how Jewish priests fled Roman rule (details)
- Two new sites document the lives of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation slaves (details)
- Search for ancient temple of Laodicea continues (details)
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News for April 15th to April 21st, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 23, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Statue of victorious female gladiator found in German museum(details)
- Very early farming site discovered in Albania (details)
- Overweight, diabetic abbot’s grave found in England (details)
- Priestess’s burial excavated in Peru (details)
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News for April 8 to 14, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 16, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Carved comb spells out early German runes(details)
- Newly discovered dolmen site may hold new evidence on early Britons details)
- New understanding of early Amazonian farming holds promise for agriculture today(details)
- New tombs in Alexandria are from Greek and Roman times(details)
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News for April 1 to 7, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 9, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Burial find in Taiwan may show connection with far traveling Pacific settlers(details)
- New evidence shows use of fire by human ancestors one million years ago details)
- Mixed martial arts champion used as army recruit for Roman Empire(details)
- Mounds shaped like animals in Peru could be images of Andean zodiac(details)
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News for March 25 to 31, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Apr 2, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Excavations in Iraq resume with discovery of early royal tomb(details)
- Western Europe’s oldest string instrument found on Isle of Skye details)
- New site in Arizona hints at life before agriculture(details)
- Bone objects found in Amsterdam are tiny early telescopes (details)
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News for March 18 to 24, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 26, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Partying for social status in Iron Age Europe(details)
- Cut marks on extinct sloth bone are evidence of earliest humans in North America details)
- Archaeological excavations reveal extensive 18th century town in Azerbaijan(details)
- Satellite photos illuminate 8000 years of settlement in the Middle East(details)
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News for March 11 to 17, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 19, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Early Anglo-Saxon burial sheds new light on so-called Dark Ages(details)
- Egyptian finds show how commoners joined in great ceremonies details)
- Large clay figures mark early Japanese burials(details)
- Ground-penetrating radar reveals buried Viking village (details)
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News for March 4th to March 10th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 12, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Oldest evidence of prehistoric hunting by humans found in Ohio(details)
- Dramatic evidence of slave trade unearthed on remote island of Saint Helena details)
- New king of Egypt is discovered(details)
- Ancient graffiti of Israel sheds light on culture, society and history(details)
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News for February 26 to March 3, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Mar 5, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Tomb of last Inca emperor is sought(details)
- Ancient Arabic records help reconstruct past climate details)
- Greek helmet from Israel documents early invasions of Middle East(details)
- Professional archaeologists protest new treasure hunters TV shows(details)
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News for February 19 to 25, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 27, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Brazilian stick figure may be earliest rock art in the Americas(details)
- 20,000 year old hunter-gathered huts discovered in Jordan details)
- Ancient Mayans enjoyed board games(details)
- Should artifacts from the Titanic be sold?(details)
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News for February 12 to 18, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 20, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Stone warriors bring Sardinia’s Bronze Age society back to life(details)
- Aerial survey documents rare medicine wheels in eastern Oregon details)
- Famous sunken city of ancient Greece returns to light(details)
- Stone slabs at Aztec temple illustrate its history of gods and wars(details)
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News for February 5 to 11, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 13, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Ruins in Israel may date to time of the prophet Jonah(details)
- Unusual residential area excavated in Mexico details)
- Vikings in Greenland were not teetotalers(details)
- Thousands of historical sites disappear in China(details)
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News for January 29th to February 4th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Feb 6, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Axe may mark the spot of Viking invasion(details)
- Aztec excavation finds school for children of nobles and priests details)
- Technology and history help trace origins of jade tool from New Guinea(details)
- Connecticut spear point marks student pathway to archaeology(details)
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News for January 22 to 28, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 30, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Stone Age fishing equipment found in Russia(details)
- Vanished temple rediscovered in Sudan (details)
- Unique “Winged” building dates to Roman Britain(details)
- Prehispanic kiln discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico(details)
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News for January 15 to 21, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 23, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- New research starts in ancient Ostia(details)
- Peruvian popcorn helps trace early evolution of varieties (details)
- Croatian cave reveals earliest example of astrology tool(details)
- Valley of the Kings produces the tomb of a woman singer(details)
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News for January 8 to 14, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 16, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- Medieval cave city falling into ruin(details)
- Ancient Mayans got a kick out of nicotine details)
- Rare Terracotta Head Sculpture found in Nigeria(details)
- 3000 cave paintings found in central Mexico(details)
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News for January 1st to 7th, 2012 Author: Archaeological Legacy Institute
Mon, Jan 9, 2012News items read by Laura Pettigrew include:
- More evidence of Ice Age hunting site at bottom of Lake Huron(details)
- Bust of Hellenistic king is found in ancient Turkish town details)
- Roman token tells a tale of London brothel business(details)
- India digs will document famous temple to three faiths(details)
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