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Friday, February 15
February 15, 2008

French archaeologist Jacques Reinhold has reportedly discovered the oldest evidence of human sacrifice in Africa, at the Sudanese village of El Kadada.  The article helpfully points out that the tomb containing the remains of a man and three sacrificial victims is 5,500 years old, while the archaeologist’s wife is 66. Peru’s Congress has passed legislation […]

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Thursday, February 14
February 14, 2008

Peru’s former first lady, Eliane Karp de Toledo, has given a copy of a memorandum of understanding between Yale University and Peru to the Yale Daily News. Karp de Toledo calls previously undisclosed terms detailed in the memo “a bad deal for Peru.” A seventeenth-century village inhabited by Japanese merchants has been found near the […]

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