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Largest Saqqara Tomb Discovered

By Rossella Lorenzi

An Egyptian team led by Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has unearthed the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, also known as the "City of the Dead."

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DNA analysed from early European

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News


Scientists have analysed DNA extracted from the remains of a 30,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer.

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Davy Crockett's Marriage License Application at Center of Florida Court Battle

AP: TAMPA, Fla. — It's not exactly the Alamo, but Davy Crockett is at the center of a battle here. Officials in Tennessee want a Hillsborough County judge to enforce a Tennessee order that 90-year-old Margaret V. Smith turn over Crockett's original marriage license application, which the Tampa woman says she inherited.

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The oldest brothels in the Malaga

WORK is currently being carried out on a plot of land between Calle Nosquera and Muro de las Catalinas to determine whether an underground car park can be built in the area which contains historic remains. By February, work should be completed on the plot where 46 council houses are to be built, and where initial excavations uncovered Roman remains from the IV century, homes build during the Almohad dynasty in the XI century, Nasrid remains from the XIV century, and Judeo-Christian remains...

Moors give up ancient secret

By John Ritchie

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have snapped the first picture of an ancient monument on the North York Moors near Scarborough which could date back more than 4,500 years to neolithic times.
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Method found to read 30,000-year-old DNA

London: Researchers have developed a way to analyse DNA samples from human remains 30,000 years ago, allowing a direct look into the history of evolution.

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Ancient child's coffin unearthed at Parthian site in southwestern Iran

TEHRAN -- A team of archaeologists has stumbled upon an ancient coffin bearing a skeleton of a child buried in a Parthian mound in Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran.

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Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular

Maev Kennedy

That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside.

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Chinese Archaeologists Discover Legendary Tomb of Cao Cao

Reuters

Chinese archeologists have unearthed a large third-century tomb, which they say could be that of Cao Cao, the legendary politician and general famous throughout East Asia for his Machiavellian tactics.

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First Jesus-Era House Found in Nazareth, Israel

AP

Days before Christmas, archeologists on Monday unveiled what they said were the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus — a find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there as a boy.

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