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Woman who found coin worth £2,000 in garden becomes first to be prosecuted for not reporting treasure

by Andy Dolan

A woman who found a 700-year-old silver 'coin' whilst digging in her garden as a child has become the first in the country to be convicted of failing to hand in suspected treasure.

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Accidental Discovery Pieces Together Ancient Biblical Manuscript

AP: JERUSALEM — Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible.

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Tyrannical English king 'buried in Scotland'

King Richard II of England was thought to have died in Yorkshire after being deposed by his cousin

By David Maddox

THE government is being asked to help fund tests that could solve a 600-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance and death of an English king.
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1,800-year-old Roman marble carving of the god Jupiter found at Fountains Abbey

A LONG-LOST Roman bust has turned up in North Yorkshire.

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Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is

By PATRICIA COHEN

It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry.

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Researchers hold breath as they lift lid on history in quest for Archbishop Wichmann

Roger Boyes

The archbishop has aged well. After 800 years, a tomb believed to contain the remains of one of the key advisers to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was opened for the first time yesterday — revealing an astonishingly well-preserved skeleton with whisps of eyebrow hair, a trace of flesh and feet decked in stylish, gold brocaded sandals.

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Ring fort may have held Bronze Age sports arena

A MYSTERIOUS ring fort in Co Tipperary holds "massive potential for discoveries" according to archaeologists who have carried out the first survey of the site.

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Huge New Dinosaur Found via "Mind-boggling" Skulls

Christine Dell'Amore

Four skulls of a giant new species of plant-eating dinosaur may give scientists a head start on understanding the biggest animals ever to have walked the Earth, a new study says.

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Pictures: Shipwreck Discovery Yields Ancient Treasure

by James Owen

Gleaming where it sank almost 3,000 years ago, a golden bracelet from the Bronze Age marks the site of one of the world's oldest shipwrecks, recently discovered off the coast of the United Kingdom. At the time of the wreck, Rome had yet to be built, pharaohs still ruled Egypt, and Jesus Christ's birth was still centuries away.

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Newly Discovered Archaeological Sites In India Reveals Ancient Life

LONDON (Bernama) -- Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago, according to Press Trust of India (PTI) on Tuesday.

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