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2008-2012


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Wednesday, November 26
November 26, 2008

Dubai customs inspectors seized 128 artifacts, including pottery, jewelry, and coins, from a boat entering the country. “These antiquities are moved from country to country to mislead the people trying to trace them,” said Ahmed Butti Ahmed, director of Dubai Customs. Some say the objects may have been smuggled out of Iraq. The wreck of […]

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Tuesday, November 25
November 25, 2008

Nineteen amphoras thought to have been looted from a shipwreck were recovered by Spain’s Guardia Civil. Two people were arrested. Anthropologist Larry J. Zimmerman of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and student Jessica Welch, used archaeological methods to study homelessness in downtown Indianapolis. “A much better way to deliver aid is to target what they actually […]

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