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Ancient Ceremonial Site Helps Answer Key Question About Mayan Culture

Posted 04.26.2013 | Science
Read More: Philanthropy, Ancient Civilization, Artifacts, Mayan Observatory, Mayan Apocalypse, Architecture, Radiocarbon Dating, Guatemala, Mayans, Maya, Human Origins, Mayan Calendar, Archaeology, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/25/2013 02:09 PM EDT on LiveScience The oldest ancient Maya ceremonial compound ever...

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'Site 13' Find Raises Questions About Early Civilization

| Posted 01.23.2013 | Science
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By Traci Watson They were humble farmers who grew corn and dwelt in subterranean pit houses. But the people who lived 1200 years ago in a Utah vil...

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Storm Uncovers Strange Relics Of WWII Shipwreck

Posted 01.19.2013 | Science
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By: Live Science Staff Published: 01/18/2013 03:38 PM EST on LiveScience After storms lashed Scotland over the holidays, some strange World War II-...

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Huge Ancient Shipwreck Yields Its Secrets

Posted 01.08.2013 | Science
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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 01/05/2013 02:28 PM EST on LiveScience SEATTLE — A dive to the undersea cliff where a ...

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Ancient Fake Toes 'Road Tested' In New Research

Posted 10.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Fake Toes, Prosthetic Limbs, History, Video, Ancient Egypt, Artifacts, Daily Discovery, Cairo, Oldest Prosthetics, Health, Science, Science News, Science News

By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 10/03/2012 10:37 AM EDT on LiveScience Researchers have suspected two Egyptian artificial toes are the wor...

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Drought Reveals River's Bloody Past

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 09.17.2012 | World
Read More: Drought, Jews, Vistula River, Artifacts, Holocaust, Poland, Archeologists, Archeology, Sunken Treasure, Global Warming, Sweden, Warsaw, World News

While record drought is usually not a good thing, it's been a boon to archeologists in Poland. The Vistula River, which flows through Warsaw, has r...

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Explore, Discover, Share, Preserve, Sustain... Plunder?

Lorie Karnath | Posted 10.14.2012 | Science
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When the group reached the location, instead of the anticipated opportunity to garner a wealth of information, Bell and the others encountered a scene of senseless desecration.

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U.S. Returns Stolen Treasure To Peru

Reuters | Posted 09.11.2012 | World
Read More: Artifacts, Peru, Peruvian-Artifacts, Cusco, Art Theft, Unearthed, Chimu, Archeology, Inca, Incan, Chimu Inca, Pre-Incan, Video, Incan Civilization, Reuters, Looting, World News

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities returned 14 stolen and looted paintings and artifacts to Peru on Thursday, including four archaeolo...

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500-Year-Old Royal Hairpin Was Found WHERE?!

AP | THOMAS ADAMSON | Posted 08.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Royal Hairpin, Hairpin Toilet, Queen Catherine De Medici, Artifacts, Vincent Droguet, Queen Catherine De Medici Hairpin, Home News

PARIS — It may be the Renaissance equivalent of a royal flush. A hairpin belonging to 16th century French Queen Catherine de Medici has been di...

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Letters From Vietnam Finally Reaching Loved Ones Back Home

Dorian de Wind | Posted 08.05.2012 | Impact
Read More: Artifacts, Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh, U.S. Military, Vietnam, Hanoi, Leon Panetta Defense Secretary, Vietnam War, Slideexpand, Impact News
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"If Dad calls, tell him I got too close to being dead but I'm O.K. I was real lucky. I'll write again soon." Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty's mother never received the letters, taken from him by Vietnamese forces when he was killed in action on March 25, 1969.

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$3 Million Artifacts Recovered By Police

AP | Posted 06.14.2012 | Home
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LONDON — British police say they have recovered two Chinese artifacts valued together at more than 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) that were sto...

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$3.2 Million Worth Of Artifacts Stolen From University Museum

AP | Posted 06.07.2012 | Home
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LONDON — Two Chinese artifacts with an estimated combined value of 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) have been stolen from a British museum, autho...

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Strange Artifact Dug Up in 18th Century Toilet

Posted 03.28.2012 | Science
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By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 03/26/2012 06:18 PM EDT on LiveScience Five telescopes made of bone and dating to the 18th ce...

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Thank You for Stealing Saddam's Buttock

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 03.21.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Nigel Ely, Saddam, British Museum, Stolen, Saddam Hussein, Artifacts, Nigel Spud Ely, Buttock, Iraq, Statue, Weird News News
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Those stories you hear about the foreign troops who pillaged and pilfered Iraq, the seat of ancient Mesopotamia -- those stories don't do justice to what we have learned from the tale of Nigel Ely. He's taught us things that only Saddam's buttock could have imparted.

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Oldest Cave Art Or 'Ice Age Menstruation Calender'?

www.spiegel.de | Posted 01.10.2012 | Arts
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The Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany has yielded yet another startling archeological discovery -- the oldest evidence of human painting ever found ...

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National Geographic Anglo-Saxon Exhibition: Rare Artifacts Go On Display Oct. 29

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.17.2011 | DC
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WASHINGTON -- The largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon artifacts ever recovered is headed to National Geographic Museum this month in a...

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Things

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 11.14.2011 | Arts
Read More: Creativity, Art, Acquisitiveness, Creation, Making Things, Artifacts, Acquiring Things, Arts News
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I have this post-apocalyptic image -- that all we have made to endure is trash, permanent mementos of brief appetites, very, very briefly useful, disposed of, then surviving forever. We would do better to make statues in snow and leave nothing.

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Stolen King Tut Artifacts Found

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 06.12.2011 | Arts
Read More: Tutankhamun, Artifacts, Cairo, King Tutankhamun, Egypt, Egyptian Artifacts, Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Antiquities, Tahrir Square, Egyptian Museum, Looted Antiquities, Egyptian Protests, Zahi Hawass, King Tut, Egyptian Revolution, Arts News

At a press conference on Tuesday, recently re-appointed Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass showed looted artifacts which had been recovered. Th...

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Iran Cuts Off Louvre

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.07.2011 | Arts
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Iran has cut ties with the famous Louvre museum in Paris, an official said Monday, accusing the museum of failing to live up to an agreement to exhibi...

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The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.26.2011 | Arts
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The following is the "Foreword" from The Buddha Image: Out of Uddiyana show catalogue courtesy of Tibet House US. It was written by Robert Thurman, ...

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Ted Gardiner Death Could Mean End Of FBI Crackdown On Artifacts Black Market

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Artifacts, Colorado New Mexico, Robert B. Knowlton, Artifact Black Market, Suicide, Ted Gardiner, Native Americans, Utah, Fbi, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — The prosecution of the largest-ever American Indian artifacts looting case has been rattled by the apparent suicide of the gove...

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Afghanistan: Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts Returned (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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About 2,000 stolen artifacts were returned to Afghanistan and unveiled at the National Museum in Kabul on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. The art...

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