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| Sunken Ships of Pisa |
Four Roman ships have been found in Pisa, Italy, by builders digging at one of the city's train stations. |
| Rare Roman Grave Found in London |
A late Roman stone sarcophagus with a lead coffin inside has been discovered in London. |
| Goethe Exhumed |
In 1970, Goethe's remains were taken secretly from his crypt in Weimar, East Germany, cleaned, treated with chemicals, then returned. |
| Borneo Cave Art |
Two groups of caves decorated with hand stencils have been discovered in northeastern Borneo. |
| Let's Not Be Too Hasty |
The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has been sent to the Senate for ratification. |
| Bronze Age to New Age |
The attention of New Age cults to ancient megalithic tombs in southern Russia has spurred measures to protect the monuments. |
| Deep Probe at Çatal |
Excavation of the eastern mound at Çatalhöyük, Turkey, began this April. |
| Ancient Cooking and Sex |
The invention of cooking may have sparked the evolution of modern human social and sexual behavior. |
| Getty Returns Italian Artifacts |
The J. Paul Getty Museum has returned three antiquities to Italy after determining they were stolen. |
| Roman Shipwreck off Alexandria |
The cargo of a mid-first-century B.C. vessel off the coast of Alexandria has allowed researchers to reconstruct the ship's trade route. |
| Pacific Lizards or Red Herrings? |
New genetic data are calling into question long accepted views about the origins of Polynesians. |
| K-Man in the Lab |
The first round of study of Kennewick Man has been finished at the Burke Museum in Seattle. |
| Romans in China? |
Peasants in Gansu Province are being described by Chinese newspapers as blond-haired, blue-eyed descendants of Roman mercenaries. |
| Highest Dig Yields Inka Sacrifices |
The perfectly preserved bodies of two girls and a boy were found atop the Andean volcano Llullaillaco in northwestern Argentina. |
| Hoard Returned |
Some 1,661 coins illegally excavated in Turkey 15 years ago were returned after a decade-long legal battle. |
| Vegetarian Essenes? |
Twenty-eight dwellings on the edge of the Ein Gedi oasis in southern Israel may have been the home of a community of Essenes. |
| Khmer Site Looted |
During the past six months, hundreds of sculptures have been stolen from the Cambodian temple complex of Banteay Chhmar. |
| New Conservation Program |
The first graduate program in archaeological and ethnographic conservation in the U.S. has been established. |
| Egyptian Gold Rush |
A 2,900-year-old papyrus map has led a mining company to as much as $16 billion in untapped gold in Egypt's Eastern Desert. |
