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2008-2012


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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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Monday, March 12
March 12, 2012

Ten men were buried alive while they were illegally digging for artifacts in a village located north of Luxor, Egypt. Two men who survived the collapse of the hole have been arrested. Spain will return eight artifacts to Egypt that had been looted in 1999, from the tomb of the sixth-dynasty official Eimb Hur in Saqqara. Police […]

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