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| Colonizing Cretans |
Europe's oldest civilization, the Minoans of ancient Crete, were also the continent's first colonialists, according to investigations in Turkey and elsewhere. |
| Saved by Neglect |
A unique record of what was probably the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans in central California has been uncovered in central San Francisco. |
| Vesuvius Victim |
Italian scientists recently drew from modern digital technology and ancient Roman art to reconstruct the face of a victim of the A.D. 79 Vesuvius eruption. |
| Skeletons of Seville |
Spanish archaeologists found four hundred skeletons from the eighteenth century while digging under the floor of Seville's Iglesia del Salvador. |
| Return of the King |
The mummy that could be Rameses I was returned last fall to Egypt almost 150 years after it was looted from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. |
| Well-Dressed Dead |
A thousand-year-old mummified woman has been discovered in Nanjing, China. |
| A Little Too Good |
British archaeologists excavating the Vindolanda military fort discovered a 2,000-year-old water main that was still functioning. |
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