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Wednesday, August 20
August 20, 2008

Your ancient wall painting in a few thousand pieces? No problem, we’ll hook up a laptop, scanner, and a laser rangefinder…

According to this posting from Odyssey Marine Exploration, Peru has filed a “Verified Conditional Claim” in the Black Swan case.

“The greatest mummy movie of all time is still ‘The Mummy’ (1932) starring Boris Karloff,” Bloomberg reviewer raves about the new digitally remastered, two-disc edition.

Here’s a preview of “Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: the Remarkable Trypilian Culture (5400-2700 B.C.),” an exhibition opening this fall at the Royal Ontario Museum.

A Bronze Age skeleton, as much as 3,200 years old, has been found buried with a pot in chalk a pit grave at Wicken, England.

The 800 Union troops aboard Menemon Sanford, a 237-foot sidewheeler that sank in 1862, all survived but the ship didn’t, leaving students plenty to investigate.

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Tuesday, August 19
August 19, 2008

Bigfoot body thawing results are in: “they discovered it was a rubber suit.” That about sums it up.

Archaeologists working in advance of construction at Petriplatz square in central Berlin have found a medieval graveyard with remains of some 2,000 people, many of them children.

An archaeology student excavating the German trenches near St. Yves, Belgium, discovered the body of an Australian soldier who died in June 1917 during the Battle of Messines.

Fire might have swept through a Bronze Age village 900 years. At least that’s interpretation of archaeologists investigating the site at Isle of Man Airport where a runway’s to be extended.

Aboriginal artifacts and remains of extinct giant wombats and other megafauna may be at risk—along with artichokes—if the Hume Council plans to create a garbage dump move forward.

Here’s an interview with Frank Rupp. For 24 years, he has worked as a Bureau of Land Management archaeologist and for the past two decades he’s been based at the BLM’s Kremmling Field Office in Colorado.

A centuries-old Native American canoe, found in early July by three boys swimming in the Keowee River of South Carolina, has been moved to the Oconee Heritage Center for preservation and exhibition.

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