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Friday, August 5
August 5, 2011

A sixteenth-century ship, possible part of the Spanish Armada, has been discovered off Ireland’s Donegal coast. A second section of a 200-year-old ship has been found in the eighteenth-century landfill at the World Trade Center site in New York City. “It does give us a much better sense of the boat’s original dimensions,” said archaeologist Michael […]

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Thursday, August 4
August 4, 2011

Twelve people have been arrested in Spain for looting local archaeological sites. Police recovered more than 9,000 artifacts during the raid. The discovery of 100 Roman coins by local men using metal detectors has led archaeologists to England’s western-most Roman town. “It is the beginning of a process that promises to transform our understanding of the […]

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