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Friday, August 12
August 12, 2011

The legs of a young woman from the Iron Age have been recovered from a bog in Ireland’s County Laois. An Iron Age burial cist and pottery have been uncovered at a construction site on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. A mass grave of young men has been found in Oxford, England. The 35 skeletons bear wound marks […]

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Thursday, August 11
August 11, 2011

Two sculptures that could represent Aphrodite and a 1,600-year-old mosaic have been unearthed in southwestern Turkey. A team of Italian archaeologists excavating medieval ships in Japan has found evidence that supports the idea that Marco Polo never traveled beyond the Black Sea. They think the Venetian heard stories of the East from Persian merchants. Evidence of […]

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