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Monday, November 9
November 9, 2009

 Researchers from Italy’s University of Lecce say they have found the army of Persian king Cambyses II, buried in Saharan sandstorm in 525 B.C. “We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus,” explained Dario Del Bufalo. The 11,000-year-old bones of two young gomphotheres, distant Ice-Age relatives of […]

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