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Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shaman discovered buried with leopard, 50 tortoises and human foot
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" ...
DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy
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Dec 16, 2009 |
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The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the ...
Early Bronze Age grave discovered in Perthshire
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular Early Bronze Age grave at the Scottish Royal centre at Forteviot.
It's your funeral: The eco burial movement gathers ground
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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Natural burial is often thought of as a green option that takes place in the countryside for non-religious people, but according to researchers at the University of Sheffield, that is only part of the story. 'Lots of different ...
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First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published
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Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...
Gravestones Talking through Time
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well. Historians know that gravestones can reflect the lives of people whose memories are lost ...
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...
Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(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 ...
The entwined destinies of mankind and leprosy bacteria
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient Egypt to today and in ...
'Dutch' Batavians more Roman than thought
Oct 23, 2009 |
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The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians had become so integrated that they ...
Fracture zones endanger tombs in Valley of Kings
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Ancient choices made by Egyptians digging burial tombs may have led to today's problems with damage and curation of these precious archaeological treasures, but photography and detailed geological mapping ...
World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 ...
Wasteland and wilderness
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
'Blue Stonehenge' discovered
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like.
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