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Monday, December 8
December 8, 2008

The first Illyrian trading post has been found by a team from the University of Oslo, in an area between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina known as Desilo, according to a report in Apollon. The Illyrians have been thought of as pirates, but these archaeologists say they also had peaceful trade connections with the Romans. “There certainly […]

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Friday, December 5
December 5, 2008

This photo essay from Discovery News shows the 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman who had been buried with a “stash” of marijuana. The grave was unearthed at the Yanghai Tombs in China’s Gobi Desert. Christie’s auction house in New York says it is cooperating with an investigation into whether or not ancient gold earrings it […]

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