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NEWS ABOUT: excavation

excavation stories: 9 news summaries

 Emmett Till's  
 Casket Found  
 'Rusted, Battered' 

Locals search for loved ones' graves at desecrated cemetery

Jul 10, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Chicagoans mourned the desecration of a historic cemetery, the casket of civil rights icon Emmett Till was found rusted in a shack amid garbage and gravestones, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out,”... More »

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Chicago • crime • murder • grave robbing • Illinois • Mississippi • civil rights • excavation • civil rights movement • Emmett Till • Burr Oak Cemetery

 Cemetery Workers Dug Up 
 Bodies, Resold Graves 

Illinois cemetery employees excavated graves, dumped remains for cash

Jul 9, 09 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four employees of a historic Chicago-area cemetery face charges after police uncovered a gruesome scheme to excavate graves, remove the human remains, and resell the plots, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. One manager and three grave diggers at Burr Oak Cemetery are charged with dismembering a human body, which carries of... More »

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grave robbing • Illinois • resales • excavation • burial • scheme • Burr Oak Cemetery

(Newser) - A California man who used Google Earth to locate a 19th century Spanish treasure ship is suing for the right to excavate on private land, ABC News reports. Nathan Smith drove to Refugio, Texas, after spotting evidence—what it was isn’t clear—from a satellite photo. The case of... More »

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Google • Texas • Spain • Google Earth • federal courts • shipwreck • treasure • satellite images • excavation • salvage

 Argentine Diggers Find 
 18th-Century Galleon 

300-year-old Spanish wreck found by team building Buenos Aires apartment block

Dec 31, 08 10:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Workers digging the foundations for a riverside apartment complex in Buenos Aires stumbled across the buried wreck of an 18th-century Spanish galleon, Reuters reports. Experts believe the ship is at least 300 years old and was likely driven ashore by a storm and then buried in mud. Archaeologists are combing... More »

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shipwreck • ship • Argentina • excavation • Buenos Aires

 Dig May Confirm 
 Solomon's 
 Mines 

Biblical account matches unearthed copper center in Jordan

Oct 28, 08 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Science and the Bible have a rare moment of “confluence,” says an archaeologist who helped unearth possible proof of King Solomon's reign, Newsweek reports. In present-day Jordan, scientists have found a 10th-century BC copper production center that coincides with the rule of the Biblical king of Israel. A... More »

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Jordan • archaeology • Bible • excavation • King Solomon • Old Testament • King David • Kingdom of Israel

 Dig Unearths 
 10th-Century 
 Viking Shield 

Denmark's moist soil preserved wooden artifact for 1,000 years

Sep 18, 08 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Archaeologists say they have found a remarkably intact Viking shield that is at least 1,000 years old, the AP reports. The 10th-century artifact, the first such find in Denmark, was buried in moist soil "ideal to preserve the wood," says an excavator. The 32-inch wooden shield was... More »

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Denmark • Vikings • excavation • archaeologist

 Dig Finds Washington's 
 Home (No Cherry Tree) 

Archaeologists excavate boyhood home of founding father

Jul 2, 08 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Archaeologists have found the childhood home of George Washington, the New York Times reports—and despite the popular legend, there's no cherry tree anywhere on the premises. Researchers describe the founding father's Virginia digs as “a very nice gentry house” sporting eight rooms—not the simple cottage pictured in... More »

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archaeology • Freemason • America • history • excavation • George Washington

 Stonehenge Riddle Solved?  

Bluestones may prove site was a healing temple

May 4, 08 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A British team has excavated Stonehenge in hope of showing it was once a temple used for healing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Archaeologists focused on the site's 4,000-year-old bluestones, a twin circle of huge rocks, for proof of their origins and purpose. Shamans and witch doctors once likely... More »

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archaeology • Stonehenge • prehistoric • excavation • ceremony • temple • bluestone

Boston's $14.8B 'Big Dig' All Dug

Costliest highway project in US history finally complete

Dec 26, 07 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The most complicated and expensive highway project in American history is finally complete, AP reports. After 16 years of excavating and building, the ambitious "Big Dig" tunnel project under Boston will be turned over to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority January 1. The final price tag was $14.8 billion—... More »

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Boston • construction • Big Dig • highways • excavation

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