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            <title>New Babylonian town found</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-212</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">Iraqi
archaeologists have discovered a new Babylonian town 180 kilometers south of
Baghdad.</span>

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:09:57 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>US death toll in Iraq hits 4000</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-211</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The death toll of US military in Iraq has hit 4000.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:08:07 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Clemson team proposes Luxor restoration</title>
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Two Clemson University professors could play a role in landscaping paths where pharaohs once trod.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:06:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Babylon treasures shown at Louvre</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-209</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The ancient city of Babylon, in what is now Iraq, gets a thorough
exploration in a new show at the Louvre, with treasures borrowed from
galleries around the world. All that's missing is the obvious:
artifacts on loan from Baghdad's museum.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:05:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ancient Artifacts Seized Near Rome</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-208</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man's
country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor
Trajan's villas, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:04:59 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Aerial scanning reveals details of ancient sites</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-207</link>
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        New technologies seem to make almost everyone's job easier, and archaeology is no exception.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:04:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Iraq&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Hidden&amp;quot; Conflict</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-206</link>
            <description><![CDATA[While the majority of Iraqis know that the current Sunni-Shiites tension did not exist before 2003, no one can deny that after five years of U.S. occupation, sectarian tension is now a reality. Sectarianism is another disaster that was brought to Iraq by the war and occupation of Iraq.<br>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:03:23 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Sword In The Stone Yields New Evidence In The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-205</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Corpse identified as St Mark the Evangelist, which was shipped to
Venice from Alexandria in the early ninth century, might actually be
the remains of Alexander the Great.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:02:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Iraq: Archaeological Expedition Mapping Ancient City Of Uruk</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-204</link>
            <description><![CDATA[German archaeologists working in Iraq have made a partial map of the
ancient site of Uruk and discovered that some of its features are just
as described in a famous Sumerian epic poem -- "The Song of Gilgamesh."
The findings come as archaeological work has virtually stopped in Iraq
over the past decade due to the crisis between Baghdad and the
international community.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:06:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-203</link>
            <description><![CDATA[When President Bush convened a meeting of his National Security Council on May 22, 2003, his special envoy in Iraq made a statement that caught many of the participants by surprise. In a video presentation from Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer III informed the president and his aides that he was about to issue an order formally dissolving Iraq’s Army.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:05:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Human rights in Iraq disastrous - Amnesty</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-202</link>
            <description><![CDATA[AMNESTY International said the rights situation in Iraq five years
after the US-led invasion was "disastrous" and that the country had
turned into one of the world's most dangerous zones.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:04:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Visualizing Egypt&amp;#039;s Elephantine with Vienna University of Technologys gePublish</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-201</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In the run-up to the talk about Google Earth and Egypt, Peter Ferschin
at the Institute of Architectural Sciences, Digital Architecture and
Planning at the Vienna University of Technology got in touch to show
what he and his colleagues have been working on in association with the
German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Cairo: A KML and COLLADA
content management system called gePublish that really pushes the
envelope in helping archaeologists visualize how ancient settlements
evolved over time.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:04:28 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Archaeological Discoveries from the First Temple Period</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-200</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Israel Antiquities Authority has released a press release in which
they report that several items from the First Temple period have been
discovered in salvage excavation in the northwestern part of the
Western Wall plaza, c. 100 meters west of the Temple Mount. Because of
the importance of the findings, I am reproducing below the press
release in its entirety.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:03:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Archaeologists discover ruins of Inca temple in Peru</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-199</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the ruins of an ancient
temple, road and irrigation systems at a fortress overlooking the Inca
capital of Cuzco. The lead archaeologist, Oscar Rodriguez, said
the temple, on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress, included 11
rooms thought to have held mummies and idols.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:03:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Structures older than Pala Era found at Paharpur site</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-198</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists recently found two ancient brick-built structures at the
Paharpur world heritage site which they believe belonged to a period
even earlier than the site's known time, the Pala Era.

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:02:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>5,000-year-old skeletons found in Iran</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-197</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Archeologists
have discovered ancient architecture and two burial chambers belonging
to the Bronze Age in a northern Iranian province.
</span>

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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:01:49 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Archaeologists find ancient temple in Iran</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-196</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<span id="intelliTXT"> Press-TV said the temple, which was found during
excavation of the historical Tal-e-Sepid mound, likely belonged to
Inshoshinak --a compassionate god known as "Father of the Weak."
The archaeology team has unearthed Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid relics, as well as an Elamite terrace, the report said.
Elam was one of the oldest civilizations in Iran.
</span>

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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:42 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>World&amp;#039;s Oldest Animation</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-195</link>
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<span class="newslid"><span style=""><font size="2">The          Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) announced on          Monday that it has recently completed the production of a documentary about the          ancient Iranian earthenware bowl bearing the world's oldest example of          animation.</font></span></span>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:13:48 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Brain Surgery In Ancient Greece</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-194</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Arial">Brain surgery was performed
nearly 1,800 years ago in Greece, archaeologists said Tuesday after
they unearthed the skeleton of a young woman from the 3rd Century CE.</font></font>

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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:13:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Italian Archaoelogcal Mission in the Sudan (Torino University - Centro Scavi). Report for 2008</title>
            <link>http://www.ancientworldcities.com/newsview-193</link>
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The present research - being the continuation of the historical mission carried on till 2005 under the auspices of Rome University "LaSapienza" - has resumed the excavations in the archaeological site of Jebel Barkal, ancient Napata, near modern Karima. Its working period covered the span between February 11th and 29th, having as main goal the complete clearing of the building labeled B2400.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:12:50 +0100</pubDate>
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