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Archaeological Discoveries from the First Temple Period

www.claudemariottini.com - 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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Mon 17th Mar 4:03AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  136 views

Structures older than Pala Era found at Paharpur site

www.thedailystar.net - 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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Mon 17th Mar 4:02AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  77 views

5,000-year-old skeletons found in Iran

www.presstv.ir - Archeologists have discovered ancient architecture and two burial chambers belonging to the Bronze Age in a northern Iranian province.

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Mon 17th Mar 4:01AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  110 views

'Exceptional' Roman ruins found at Wansford

www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk - AN "EXCEPTIONAL" ancient Roman site has been discovered in woodland near Peterborough. Despite numerous digs and excavations across the region over the past two centuries, the huge site, hidden deep in woods at Bedford Purlieus, had miraculously gone unnoticed.

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Tue 11th Mar 2:26AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  62 views

Need for communal rituals might have led to the rise of civilization

www.topnews.in - Research work regarding a large 11,000-year-old ceremonial center at Gobekli Tepe ("navel hill") in Turkey by archaeologists has suggested that it was the need for communal rituals that led to the rise of civilization.

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Tue 11th Mar 2:23AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  41 views

Second Life exhibition about the pleasure of the table in Roma

ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com - The Monastery is a place in Second Life, in a sim named Alpine Meadow and owned by a virtual communauty, the Confederation of Democratic Simulator (CDS).The Monastery was built on a land bought with donations of citizen of the CDS. It is managed by a virtual non-governmental organization, Virtus. The Monastery is dedicated to activities about spirituality, wisdom and knowledge and is a symbol of the transmission of knowledge from the Antiquity (CDS sim Colonia Nova) to the Middle Age (CDS sim Neufreistadt). For this reason, the Monastery is developping a virtual library showing this process of transmission, with a scriptorium (work in progress). The Chapel hosts exhibitions about art and culture.

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Mon 10th Mar 4:52AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  58 views

Underwater excavations in Novgorod.

minaev.blogspot.com - The Novgorodian Divers Federation and The Novgorodian Society of Amateurs of Antiquity have been running archaeological excavations at the bottom of river Volkhov for some years already. They have found some thousands of various artefacts of XII-XVII centuries. In the end of February, the new annual expedition began and in the first days of March three articles about the new finds appeared one after the other in Russian media.

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Mon 10th Mar 4:49AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  52 views

National Archaeology Week 2008

digitaldigging.blogspot.com - National Archaeology Week is the CBA's flagship event, a national festival of archaeology with numerous events ... which showcase the best of British archaeology and allow everyone to see archaeology in action

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Mon 10th Mar 4:42AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  57 views

3,000-Year-Old Tomb Found on Greek Island

news.nationalgeographic.com - Road construction on the western Greek island of Lefkada has uncovered and partially destroyed an important tomb with artifacts dating back more than 3,000 years, officials said on Wednesday.

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Mon 10th Mar 4:01AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  80 views

Skeleton could hold secret to Stonehenge

www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk - A SKELETON, which has been on prominent display in Salisbury Museum for nearly a decade, could hold the secret to Stonehenge's mysterious past and show the site to be an arena of gladiatorial combat, an archaeological expert has claimed.

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Thu 6th Mar 4:54AM by daniel ,  0 comments,  199 views