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  • August 2008

    • Team Digs Up Ancient Chariot

      Associated Press  |  Aug 7, 08 8:51 PM CDT

      Team Digs Up Ancient Chariot

      (AP) - Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old chariot in good condition at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria. The team found the four-wheel chariot during excavations near the village of Borisovo, around 180 miles east of the capital, Sofia. It's rare to find a chariot of this age in one piece, say archeologists, who often discover that looters have been there ahead of them. More »

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      Bulgaria  • archeology  • Macedonia

    • Early Shakespeare Theater Discovered

      Associated Press  |  Aug 6, 08 8:37 PM CDT

      Early Shakespeare Theater Discovered

      (AP) - Archeologists think they have found the theater where Romeo and Juliet debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards. The possible foundations of what is known as simply "the Theatre" were unearthed by builders excavating the London site—a vacant garage—for another structure. Museum archaeologists were called to the location and had a eureka moment when they noticed the angled walls common in the 16th century. More »

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      London  • theater  • William Shakespeare  • archeology

  • July 2008

    • Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  Jul 21, 08 3:34 AM CDT

      Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth

      (Newser) - Google Earth has made detailed satellite imagery readily accessible to planetary voyeurs—but academics are also using it to get things done in ways never before possible. A team of university archeologists are uncovering hundreds of sites in the Afghan desert that might never have been discovered on foot, reports the Sydney Morning Herald . More »

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      Afghanistan  • Google Earth  • desert  • archeology

  • April 2008

    • Fossil Feces Revise History

      National Geographic  |  Apr 3, 08 9:43 PM CDT

      Fossil Feces Revise History

      (Newser) - Fossilized feces found in an Oregon cave have scientists rethinking how and when humans first came to North America. At 14,300 years old, the ancient poop was deposited at least 1,000 years before humans were thought to roam the area, National Geographic reports. Discoveries like this "help us to reconstruct the American past," one of the scientists says. More »

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      Oregon  • discovery  • fossil  • archeology  • origins of humanity

  • July 2007

    • Amateur Prospectors Find Rare Viking Treasure in UK

      PBS  |  Jul 22, 07 7:13 AM CDT

      Amateur Prospectors Find Rare Viking Treasure in UK

      (Newser) - A pot filled with mostly silver coins, buried for 1,000 years, was found recently by a father and son wielding a metal detector on a farm in Yorkshire, England.  Archeologosists theorize that the find by Dave and Andrew Whelan was booty from a Viking raid on a monastery. The hoard of coins is from England, Ireland, France, Russia and the Arabic-speaking world. More »

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      archeology  • treasure  • Yorkshire

  • May 2007

    • First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

      New Yorker  |  May 20, 07 9:02 PM CDT

      First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

      (Newser) - An unknown scientist in the first century B.C. may have invented the world’s first computer. Discovered by Greek divers in 1900 on the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Antikythera, the so called Antikythera Mechanism lay in the National Museum in Athens mistaken for an astrolabe until the late 1950s. More »

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      technology  • computer  • Greece  • shipwreck  • archeology  • Antikythera

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