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Friday, December 5
December 5, 2008

This photo essay from Discovery News shows the 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman who had been buried with a “stash” of marijuana. The grave was unearthed at the Yanghai Tombs in China’s Gobi Desert. Christie’s auction house in New York says it is cooperating with an investigation into whether or not ancient gold earrings it […]

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Thursday, December 4
December 4, 2008

Christie’s auction house in New York has listed a pair of neo-Assyrian gold earrings for sale that the former director of the Iraq Museum, Donny George, says are from Nimrud. George witnessed the excavation of gold earrings from a royal tomb at Nimrud by an Iraqi team in 1989. The earrings were displayed by the […]

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