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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 55 Number 4, July/August 2002
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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 the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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| In Living Color |
The world's best-preserved example of painted classical sculpture has been unveiled following a three-year-long restoration. |
| 110 and Counting... |
Egypt's 110th pyramid,
possibly that of a wife of Djedefre, has been excavated. |
| Crime Pays |
A hoard of 670 fourth-century Roman coins, 56 of which are actually ancient forgeries, was found in Somerset, England. |
| Atlantis in Bolivia? |
A controversial search for "lost cities" in Bolivia will embark on the fourth phase of exploration this August. |
| Old Site, New Tricks |
Archaeologists have discovered a marble kouros at the Kerameikos cemetery outside Athens. |
| Baltic Mystery Wreck |
The Swedish navy has released footage of a spectacularly preserved eighteenth-century ship discovered during routine winter exercises in the Baltic Sea. |
| Etruscan Pompeii |
The largest Etruscan settlement ever found has been discovered in the Tuscan plain near Lake Accesa, Italy. |
| Dawn of the Domicile? |
A modest gravel rectangle unearthed in central Texas may be the earliest evidence for a man-made structure in North America. |
| Bronze-Age Venice |
Archaeologists working in Campania, Italy, have uncovered a 3,500-year-old settlement made up of small artificial islets. |
| Squeezing the Squatters |
Prosecutors began investigating Guillermo Cock's excavation in Peru after he revealed that money raised by residents to finance the dig was far greater than he originally reported. |
| Battle of the Bulge |
Two years after the Israel Antiquities Authority surveyed a bulge on the southern retaining wall of Jerusalem's, repair work has begun to prevent the partial collapse of the wall. |
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