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Wednesday, September 10
September 10, 2008

An “eye” stolen from a statue of Amenhotep III in 1972 will be returned to Egypt by a Swiss museum. “The thieves sold it to an American antiquities dealer who then auctioned it at Sotheby’s,” explained Egypt’s culture minister, Faruk Hosni. Archaeologist Denise To and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command are looking for the remains […]

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Tuesday, September 9
September 9, 2008

Neanderthal brains developed in a way similar to modern human brains, according to the analysis of the skulls of two Neanderthal toddlers, and an infant Neanderthal skeleton. “In many respects they are much more similar to modern humans than we thought. First it was tools, then eating meat, altruism, all kinds of features that seem […]

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