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Five-Star Inn with Great Art |
A highway-widening project a half-mile south of Pompeii inadvertently reopened excavations of an ancient luxury inn for business travelers. |
Good News from Iraq |
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad, one of the Middle East's most important museums, has recently reopened its doors after being closed for a decade. |
Sexy Skull Find |
A skull belonging to a female Paranthropus robustus has highlighted the differences between males and females within this early hominid species. |
Rhodes' Colossal Contest |
Civil authorities on the island of Rhodes are planning a statue inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes to be erected in time for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. |
Gold from the Bronze Age |
A gold mine in Dyfed, west Wales, one of the largest and most complex sources of ancient gold in Europe, could be much older than once thought. |
Prehistoric Body Painting |
The discovery of pigment in an early Middle Stone Age deposit in Zambia suggests that early humans engaged in body painting rituals as early as 400,000 years ago. |
Cahokia Joyride |
Authorities have launched a publicity blitz against joy riders in all-terrain vehicles who have been using Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site for recreational purposes. |
Detroit, Next Exit |
The cyclical lowering of water levels in the Great Lakes has recently laid bare portions of one of the region's most important remnants of the War of 1812. |
Sarcophagus Comes Home |
Italy's Guardia di Finanza has recovered a finely carved sarcophagus at a farm near Rome that was about to be illegally exported to Switzerland. |
Caesars Big Dig |
One of the largest excavations ever undertaken in the eastern U.S. has revealed a long occupation on the lower Ohio River in Harrison County, Indiana. |
Upscale Iron Age Village |
Archaeologists have uncovered a wealthy village dating from 200 B.C.-A.D. 800 on the southern tip of Shetland Island. |
Domain Dispute |
Ancient Romans were the first makers of champagne, not the French, says viticulturist Mario Fregoni of Catholic University in Piacenza. |
Beware of Dogs Facing West |
Recent excavations in Kazakhstan have produced the earliest evidence for many ritual practices that are seen in Bronze Age and Iron Age sites. |
Protecting Panama |
Panama's Instituto Nacional de Cultura has received an $80,000 grant from American Express for emergency preservation work on the Caribbean coast of Panama. |