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Wednesday, April 6
April 6, 2011

Hundreds of skeletons have been unearthed at a medieval mental health hospital in London. The site will be cleared for a new tunnel project. Human remains that could be 7,000 years old were unearthed in Iowa during sewer construction, along with “apparent signs of a Stone Age clambake,” and flooring from ancient homes. “On a […]

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Tuesday, April 5
April 5, 2011

More than 145 artifacts and 50 replicas are missing from a storeroom at the American University in Cairo. Three AUC employees have been arrested and charged with theft.  James Evans of the University of Puget Sound thinks that two of the dials representing the zodiac and the Egyptian calendar on the Antikythera mechanism were adapted […]

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