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Ancient undersea stone structure was made by man; what was it?
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. Scientists don't know who built the structure, or why, but in a recent paper in the International...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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New Jamestown exhibit explores colonist cannibalism
Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger. She was already forgotten...
Tags: England, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Smithsonian Institution, Arts and Culture
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Cannibalism at Jamestown evidence unearthed
Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during...
Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Cannibalism, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Historic Jamestowne, Culture
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Don't ruin Robinson's Arch
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have mixed emotions about Natan Sharansky's proposed agreement to expand the public space at the Western Wall to include the currently secluded area known as Robinson's Arch. As a lifelong Conservative Jew, I applaud any plan...Tags: Judaism, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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Archaeologists seek help finding Shawnee village in Clark County
A Shawnee village once located in Clark County remains all but lost to time, but state anthropologists hope landowners in the Indian Old Fields area will join in the hunt. The University of Kentucky’s Department of Anthropology and the Kentucky...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Anthropology
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Preserving the memory of the Monitor sailors
Long before the start of the expedition that recovered the USS Monitor gun turret from the bottom of the Atlantic in 2002, Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists working to save the historic Civil War ship knew they might run into the remains of lost...
Tags: USS Monitor, Arts and Culture, USS Monitor Center, Human Interest, Mariners' Museum
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Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later
Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...
Tags: Unions, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Abraham Lincoln, Hampton Roads, Human Interest
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Richard III horror story: Axed in head, stabbed in rear, bones dug up
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been updated. Please see note at the bottom for details. King Richard III has not been treated ...... -
Getty Museum to return Hades terracotta head to Sicily
A terracotta head depicting the Greek god Hades that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired in 1985 is being voluntarily sent back to Sicily, the museum has announced. Getty officials said that the museum has worked with officials from Sicily during the last...
Tags: Italy, The Getty, Sculpture, Greek Gods and Goddesses, Museums
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Casual ambience on the Aegean
ISTANBUL, Turkey — We slipped out of Istanbul at dusk, gliding across the Bosporus strait toward the Aegean Sea, Asia on the left bank, Europe on the right, four masts towering 204 feet overhead, polished teak floors underfoot, the notes of Buddy...
Tags: Cruises, Windstar Cruises, Istanbul (Turkey), World War I (1914-1918), Dining and Drinking
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Petroglyphs stolen from sacred eastern Sierra site recovered
L.A. NOWPetroglyph panels cut and chiseled off an eastern Sierra rock art site sacred to Native Americans have been recovered by federal investigators, U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials announced Thursday. The suspected thieves have not been identified and... -
Mexico finds fire-god figure at top of Pyramid of the Sun
MEXICO CITY -- Did the rulers of the ancient city of Teotihuacan dedicate their largest pyramid to the god of fire, the so-called old god with a signature beard and fire atop his head? Mexican archaeologists announced this week that a figure of the god,...
Tags: Mexico, Arts and Culture
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