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Maritime Archaeologist at Helm of Modern Journey to Ancient Egyptian Land

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient Egyptians may be best known for building pyramids, but internationally renowned maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward wants the world to know that they were pretty good sailors, too.





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Shipwreck from the Early Islamic Period discovered off Israeli coast

Shipwreck from the Early Islamic Period discovered off Israeli coast

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created Jan 23, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An 8th century shipwreck was discovered off Dor Beach and excavated by researchers from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies of the University of Haifa. It is believed to be the only boat from this ...


High-tech nuke detectors check Puget Sound small vessels for WMD

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

More than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in Puget Sound this week. Maritime law enforcement ...


Relics of Taipei's first settlement found

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created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The ruins of Taiwan's earliest settlement in Taipei, dating around 2,500 years before Christ, have been found in a vacant lot, an archaeologist said.


Contamination under boats no worse than elsewhere in California bay, study says

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created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A yearlong federal study has determined levels of contaminated sediment found under obsolete, rotting government ships anchored in Suisun Bay, in central California, are no higher than those found elsewhere in local waters, ...


World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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 ...


Drought threatens Indian artifacts

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created Dec 20, 2007 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

North Carolina officials warned that taking advantage of the drought to look for American-Indian artifacts on lake bottoms is against the law.


Discovery of the oldest European marsupial

Discovery of the oldest European marsupial

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...


NOAA locates US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle

NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...


Global glacier melt continues

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created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (20) | comments 8

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...


Scientists: Earthquakes, El Ninos fatal to earliest civilization in Americas

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created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.



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