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Wednesday, June 10
June 10, 2009

Bricks fell off of a section of Rome’s ancient Aurelian walls yesterday. “Their maintenance is a recurrent problem for Rome. We have a huge restoration project ready to be implemented but do not have enough funds to carry it out,” said Umberto Broccoli, head of archaeology for the city council. Workers in China’s Shaanxi Province […]

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Tuesday, June 9
June 9, 2009

Two Neolithic tombs have been discovered using aerial photography near Cranborne Chase, about 15 miles away from Stonehenge. “It’s one of the most famous prehistoric landscapes, a Mecca for prehistorians, and you would have thought the archaeological world would have gone over it with a fine tooth comb,” said Helen Wickstead of Kingston University. The […]

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