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Friday, July 22
July 22, 2011

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts will return the top half of the Weary Herakles statue to Turkey, where it will be reunited with its bottom half at the Antalya Museum. The top half was purchased in 1981; the bottom half was excavated from the site of Perge in 1980. A tiny, 2,000-year-old golden bell was found […]

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Thursday, July 21
July 21, 2011

Archaeologist Carlos Wester of the Bruning Museum in Lambayeque, and his team have unearthed the tomb of a lord of the Lambayeque culture at the temple complex of Chotuna Chornancap, Peru. Copper machetes and human offerings suggest that he had been an executioner. A skull has been found at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Jeff […]

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