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Wednesday, May 25
May 25, 2011

Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama has spotted 17 pyramids, more than 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements using infra-red satellite images of Egypt. Test excavations have confirmed the presence of two of the pyramids. “It allows us to be more focused and selective in the work we do. Faced with a massive site, […]

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Tuesday, May 24
May 24, 2011

Administrators of the University of California system have reportedly told scientists that they are not permitted to study two 9,000-year-old skeletons discovered in the 1970s on property owned by UC San Diego in La Jolla, California. “Administrators are doing everything they can to ignore the scientific value of the specimens. They are trying to illegally […]

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