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August 11, 2009
Bipedal Humans Came Down From The Trees, Not Up From The Ground
ScienceDaily— A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor.
4,000-year-old dye found on Egyptian artifact
(AP) WASHINGTON - Four thousand years ago Egyptians had mastered the process of making madder, a red dye, according to a researcher who uncovered the earliest known example of the color still used today.
August 10, 2009
And More! Two thousand year-old remains of Emperor Vespasian's house discovered
By Nick Squires in Rome
The archaeologists have unearthed reception rooms, colonnades, mosaic floors and traces of a hot bath complex at a site in mountainous countryside near the town of Rieti, north of Rome.
Shipwrecked: Archaeologists explore graveyard of sunken ships in Baltic Sea
<!-- sphereit start --> STOCKHOLM (AP) —The fire began in the galley, where the crew had kept a stove burning while they visited a tavern ashore. As the flames devoured her stern, the Anna Maria sank through the ice in the Stockholm archipelago.
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A handmade leather heart, a gold cross and a train ticket: The poignant keepsakes found at mass World War I graves in France
They are the personal mementoes and keepsakes of men whose bodies have lain abandoned and disturbed in the wake of one of the First World War's most deadly and wasteful battles.
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August 7, 2009
Graves of forgotten Culloden Redcoats discovered
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They were the victors, but for centuries the location of the graves of the government troops who fell at Culloden has been a mystery - unmarked and untraced in the vengeful belief that they were unworthy of proper graves.
Roman Emperor Vespasian's Villa Found
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World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago Photo: EPA 
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago Photo: EPA A stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain is believed to contain the earliest known representation of a landscape.
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August 6, 2009
Göbekli Tepe: Standing stones from humanitys oldest temple
The massive limestone monoliths weigh between ten and twenty tons and are weirdly carved with fantastic scorpions, lions, spiders and snakes that testify to the difficult hunter's life. Unearthed after thousands of years of deliberate forgetfulness, these silent pillars stand in a circle located only a few miles south of the ancient town of Sanliurfa, Turkey, the legendary birthplace of the prophet Abraham
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