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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 56 Number 6, November/December 2003
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Pre-Christian Rituals at Nazareth |
Archaeological investigations near Nazareth have revealed that the area was a major cult center 8,000 years before the time of Christ. |
Tilya Tepe Triumph |
A remarkable ancient treasure with a dramatic history has been found safe in a Kabul bank vault after 14 years. |
Lake Mead Drought |
A four-year drought has exposed St. Thomas, Nevada, a town founded by Mormon settlers in 1865. |
WWII Resurfaces |
The Danube fell to its lowest levels in centuries this summer, revealing a previously submerged WWII past. |
Amputee Art |
A major debate that has raged in the world of prehistoric art took a new twist with the recent discovery of a ritual deposit containing two adult finger bones in a cave in southern Poland. |
Starter Home |
A jumble of rocks atop a Colorado mesa top may be evidence for a 12,000-year-old house, probably built by the Folsom Paleoindian people. |
Viking Hoard |
The largest and best-quality Viking hoard yet found on the Isle of Man has been discovered by a metal detectorist. |
Olympic Find |
A previously unknown sanctuary to Zeus Hypsistos was discovered during excavations at Dion. |
Breast Is Best |
Breastfeeding proponents will hail the results of tests on tenth- to sixteenth-century bones. |
Ayodhya Update |
The Archaeological Survey of India reports that its excavations have revealed evidence for a tenth-century Hindu temple at the site of the sixteenth-century Babri Masjid. |
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