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Thursday, December 4
December 4, 2008

Christie’s auction house in New York has listed a pair of neo-Assyrian gold earrings for sale that the former director of the Iraq Museum, Donny George, says are from Nimrud. George witnessed the excavation of gold earrings from a royal tomb at Nimrud by an Iraqi team in 1989. The earrings were displayed by the […]

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Wednesday, December 3
December 3, 2008

A Chachapoyas citadel has been discovered in the remote Amazonian rainforest of northeastern Peru.  Bloomberg investigates recent archaeological finds in Israel, and the claims made by some that they support the existence of a biblical King David and his kingdom.   Mihalis Liapis, Greece’s Culture Minister, honored three academics for their efforts to have the Parthenon […]

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