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Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

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Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 3

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.

UQ archaeology digs into the life behind Pompeii

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Nov 25, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brisbane may be 2000 years and half-a-world away from Pompeii, but it hasn’t stopped a UQ archaeologist from digging up some hidden treasures.

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

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Nov 21, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 7

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...

New insights into the life of the Maya

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (17) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...

Study Pits Man v Machine in Piecing Together 425-Million Years Old Jigsaw

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Nov 16, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience.

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

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Nov 13, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...

Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica

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Nov 11, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land.

Israel displays coins from ancient Jewish revolt

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Nov 11, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.

New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past

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Nov 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, ...

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

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Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...

Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

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Nov 09, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (6) | 0

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others ...

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island

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Nov 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (7) | 0

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...