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Friday, March 7
March 7, 2008

A 2,500-year-old waterhole lined with wickerwork was discovered at York University in northern England, at a site which also contains a Roman building. In Scotland, a medieval copper belt buckle turned up in a collapsed sewer, along with animal bones, shells, pottery, and a padlock.   Some 3,000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons that were dug up 30 years […]

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Thursday, March 6
March 6, 2008

A small beehive-shaped tomb partially destroyed by construction equipment was uncovered on the Greek island of Lefkada. “This is a very important find for the area, because until now we had next to no evidence on Mycenaean presence on Lefkada, excavator Maria Stavropoulou-Gatsi said. One-hundred burials from the Early Bronze Age were found at the […]

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