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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 56 Number 3, May/June 2003
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Bountiful Celtic Burials |
A necropolis found along the sandy banks of the Aisne River may be the final piece of the puzzle for archaeologists trying to identify a Celtic tribe in the Picardie region of northern France. |
Stolen Sarcophagus |
Italian police are still searching for a missing side from a sarcophagus illegally excavated in the 1970s. |
Gourd Lord |
A four-thousand-year-old gourd fragment found on the Peruvian coast may push back the appearance of ancient Andean religion by a thousand years. |
Dig before Depot |
The eighteenth-century Philadelphia house of James Dexter will not lie forgotten beneath a planned tour bus depot. |
Silk Road Theft |
In the remote Lop Nur desert of northwest China, ancient tombs have been ransacked for the second time in two years. |
Yo Ho Ho, and a Bottle of Vinum |
A remarkable discovery in Monte di Procida near Naples should help us learn about Roman sailors. |
A Younger Mungo Man |
Mungo Man, Australia's oldest skeleton, may be twenty thousand years younger than thought. |
Crisis Archaeology |
A court-ordered excavation has begun at the site of the sixteenth-century Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya. |
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