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32 min ago | FoxNews.com

Tomb of Real 'Gladiator' Found in Rome

Italian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the ancient Roman hero said to have inspired the character played by Russell Crowe in the film "Gladiator." Daniela Rossi, an archaeologist based in Rome, said ...

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Related Topix: Sport, Gladiator, Documentary Movies, Drama, Action, Adventure, Anthropology, Science, Russell Crowe

7 hrs ago | Addison Wesley Professional

LEGO Mindstorms NXT: The Mayan Adventure

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT has hit the world by storm, giving you the ability to build your own robots and program them to perform all types of actions.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Science, Anthropology

12 hrs ago | Chronicle-Telegram

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Archive for October 11th, 2008 K2 not OK: Browns tight end spends two nights in hospital with undisclosed illness, is only 50-50 to play Monday night BEREA - Pro Bowl tight end Kellen Winslow spent a second ...

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Related Topix: Sports, Cleveland Browns, NFL Football, Corey Williams, Kellen Winslow, NFL Players

Wed Oct 15, 2008

This is York

Timbers from a Viking home found in Hungate dig

THE remains of a Viking home have been discovered in York by archaeologists. York Archaeological Trust archaeologists have exposed what they believe to be a timber-lined cellar of a two-storey house, during ...

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology

Chronicle-Telegram

Firelands Archaeological Center opens new digs in Amherst

The new Firelands Archaeological Research Center will barely have its doors open when it gets its first load of historic artifacts.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology, Amherst, OH, University of Toledo

Der Spiegel

3D Model of Antiquity: Program Allows Virtual Tour of Ancient Roman Cologne

A team of archaeologists, scientists and software programmers has created a 3D virtual model of the city of Cologne as it was 2,000 years ago.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Anthropology, Science, Computers, Italy,

Tue Oct 14, 2008

International Herald Tribune

Greece: 2 arrested over illegal antiquities

THESSALONIKI, Greece : Police in northern Greece say they have arrested two men, including a museum employee, for allegedly trying to sell dozens of illegally excavated antiquities.

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Related Topix: Greece, World News, Anthropology, Science, Business News

South China Morning Post

Treated like dirt

Hong Kong's soil reveals that it was much more than just a fishing village, but its archaeological heritage is threatened by official indifference Hong Kong is typically described as being no more than a small ...

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology

Asheville Citizen-Times

Piece together the past at archaeology festival

Dig into history at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site. Discover how archaeologists illuminate written records and learn about past cultures based on artifacts left behind.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology, South Carolina

Mon Oct 13, 2008

XtraMSN Real Estate

Stars come out to honour Pavarotti at Petra

Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo and other stars of popular and classical music honoured late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti at a star-studded concert in Jordan over the weekend.

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Related Topix: Classical, Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Arts, Opera, Anthropology, Science

Archaeology

Witches of Cornwall

Archaeologist Jacqui Wood holds a fragment of a cauldron unearthed from a buried spring-fed pool near her home.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology, Pagan/Wiccan, Agriculture

The Times of India

1,900 yr old Buddhist monastery discovered in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: Gujarat State Archaeological Department has discovered a small size Buddhist monastery in Gujarat's Vadnagar, which dates back to 1,900 years.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology

Sun Oct 12, 2008

Providence Journal

Treaures so near, yet so far

In May, as a handful of local archeologists watched from the gunwales of four research ships, warfare scientists for the Navy and federal oceanographers lowered several high-tech robots into Narragansett Bay's ...

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Related Topix: Oceanography, Science, Science / Technology, Robots, Portsmouth, RI, Jamestown, RI, Rhode Island, Anthropology

Archaeology

Prison Break at Johnson's Island

Archaeologist Dave Bush stands at the entrance to the Johnson's Island POW camp site.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology

Archaeology

Letter from Utah: Hawaiians in Skull Valley

Utah's Skull Valley, where Hawaiian Mormons founded the settlement of Iosepa in 1889.

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Related Topix: Hawaii, Sundance Film Festival, Anthropology, Science

The Times and Democrat

Scratching the Surface: Archaeologists, volunteers dig for the past at Topper

In the state in which the Civil War began, controversy is nothing new, going all the way back to the earliest English settlement in what was then Charles Towne in 1670.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, Science, University of South Carolina, Clovis, NM

Sat Oct 11, 2008

KPAX

Idaho museum unveils 16,000-year-old tools

The Idaho Museum of Natural History is displaying some of the nation's oldest archaeological discoveries -- ancient tools found in southeastern Idaho in 2006.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology, Idaho State University

Archaeology

City Beneath the Mounds

A 2003 drawing of ancient Etowah, above left, was shown to be inaccurate following a survey earlier this year, during which archaeologists used subsurface mapping tools to produce new images, above.

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Related Topix: Science, Anthropology, University of Georgia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina

The Florida Times-Union

Antiquities dealer has colorful, checkered career

Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica - a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, World News, Central America, Anthropology, Science

Yemen Observer

Notorious Jordanian artifacts smuggler released

The archaeologist court has released Sameer Hamad, legendary foreign artifacts smuggler, who was detained over charges linked to smuggling ancient Yemeni relics, the GPC-run almotamar.net has reported.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, Science, World News, Yemen, Middle East

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