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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 54 Number 3, May/June 2001
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Latest News
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Check out today's headlines and the latest newsbriefs from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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| Cultural Terrorism |
Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban regime's destruction of pre-Islamic statues has been universally condemned as "cultural terrorism." |
| Intolerance in Antiquity |
Archaeologists are currently debating whether to restore a 3,200-year-old colossal statue of Rameses II that lies in pieces within his temple at Luxor. |
| The Eyes Have It |
An international neuroscience research group has made a brave first step into the ancient world with an analysis of about 200 Roman mummy portraits. |
| Tsavo's Man-Eaters |
Excavation in and around the cave in Kenya that might have been the den of man-eating lions has just been completed. |
| Moche Madness |
Just when you thought you had seen it all from the Moche, still more material has come to light. |
| Marrow Meals |
Human remains found in a Gloucester cave provide the first "irrefutable evidence" for cannibalism in northern Europe. |
| Stone Broke |
Scottish power company recently billed a 23-foot-high, 1,200-year-old engraved stone for the cost of illuminating it for passersby. |
| Raise the Roof |
Recently, the forlorn Shiva temple at Bhojpur got a lift from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). |
| Brits Sign On |
Britain will sign the 1970 UNESCO cultural property convention, which gives members the right to recover stolen or illicitly exported antiquities that surface in other signatory countries. |
| Art Attack |
A suicide truck bomb was a "blessing in disguise" for Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist shrine, the sixteenth-century Temple of the Tooth. |
| Ivan's Lament |
Moscow scientists confirmed that Anastasia Romanova, the beloved first wife of Czar Ivan IV, was poisoned. |
| Tikal Temple V Gets a Facelift |
Conservators are now reconstructing the temple's staircase so that visitors to the site will be able to scale the pyramid. |
| Canned Remains |
A 91-year-old can of cocoa has been returned to its Antarctica home after traveling around the world with a U.S. Navy veteran for over 40 years. |
| Marriage in Ruins |
Archaeologist Niall Hardie-Hammond presented his wife with the deed to a crumbling thirteenth-century castle on their wedding day. |
| Radioactive! |
Archaeologist Nicholas Toth of Indiana University had radioactive isotopes injected into his brain while making simple stone tools in an effort to determine the mental processes of the first toolmakers. |
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