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Wednesday, March 14
March 14, 2012

Antiquities collector Oded Golan has been found not guilty of forging an artifact by a Jerusalem court. Scholars have not been able to agree on the authenticity of the so-called “James Ossuary,” which Golan claims to have purchased from Arab traders in East Jerusalem. A rare wooden statue of a pharaoh discovered last summer in Abydos may […]

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Tuesday, March 13
March 13, 2012

Construction work was prevented in Vancouver when protesters from the Musqueam Indian Band kept the developers off a lot that they say could be an ancient burial ground. Light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, is a high-tech tool scientists are using to map archaeological sites and how they change over time. “LiDAR technology (helps) map not […]

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