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Wednesday, August 31
August 31, 2011

A massive amphitheater used to train gladiators has reportedly been found east of Vienna. Plans to construct a four-lane highway along the Fraser River in British Columbia could destroy two ancient archaeological sites. Human remains excavated in the 1960s and 1970s by archaeologists from the University of Colorado and Simon Fraser University will be reburied in British […]

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Tuesday, August 30
August 30, 2011

A mathematical review of the Codex Vergara, a census conducted by the Acolhua-Aztecs in the mid-1500s, shows that the Aztec surveyors were remarkably accurate even without the use of trigonometry. Yuval Goren of Tel Aviv University and Boaz Zissu of Bar Ilan University examined a looted ossuary confiscated by the Israel Antiquities Authority three years ago. […]

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