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Monday, September 20
September 20, 2010

More than 14,000 human skeleton fragments have been unearthed at the Sacred Ridge site in Colorado. Archaeologists think that the bones indicate genocide between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups. “All evidence points to a rapid event, which is only possible with coordination and complicity within the community,” said Jason Chuipka of Woods Canyon Archaeological […]

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Friday, September 17
September 17, 2010

In 2001, 362 cuneiform tablets that had been smuggled into New Jersey were stopped by U.S. Customs officials and put in storage at the very bottom of one of the twin towers at the World Trade Center. When the buildings were destroyed on September 11, the tablets were crumbled and soaked with water. Earlier this […]

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