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Wednesday, May 12
May 12, 2010

More than 100 more terracotta warriors have been unearthed at the tomb of China’s first emperor in Xian province. Some paint colors remain on the statues, along with burn marks. “It was hard work to restore the clay warriors as they were broken into pieces. It took us at least 10 days to restore one,” […]

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Tuesday, May 11
May 11, 2010

Excavation of the Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt, has uncovered a fifth-century Coptic church and a Nilometer, a cylindrical structure that was used to measure the level of the Nile River during floods. The church had been built with limestone blocks taken from Ptolemaic and Roman temples. Archaeologist Mike Morwood and rock art […]

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