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NEWS ABOUT: archeology

archeology stories: 9 news summaries

 Archeologists Find 
 Mini-Stonehenge

'Bluehenge' is a mile away, but all the rocks are gone

Oct 3, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Archeologists have found what amounts to Stonehenge-lite located about a mile from the larger monument. This one—dubbed Bluehenge—probably won't be as much of a tourist draw for one important reason: all the rocks are gone. But based on holes in the earth, scientists say 27 enormous rocks once... More »

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archeology • history • Stonehenge • Bluehenge

 Record Stash of Ancient Gold 
 Found In Farmer's Field 

Brit with metal detector uncovers 7th-century Anglo-Saxon jackpot

Sep 24, 09 2:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The biggest stash of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found has been unearthed in a farmer's field in Staffordshire, England, by an amateur treasure hunter using a metal detector. The hoard, estimated to date back to the 7th century, includes weapons, helmets, and gold coins. Archaeologists are stunned both by... More »

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archeology • treasure • farmer • Britain • gold coins

 Egypt Unveils Ancient Mummy 


Feb 11, 09 7:01 PM CST
(AP) - Illuminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing—for the first time since it was sealed in antiquity—a perfectly preserved mummy. Wrapped in dark-stained canvas, the mummy is part of Egypt's discovery of... More »

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archeology • mummy • ancient Egypt

(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... More »

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archeology • Bulgaria • Macedonia

(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... More »

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theater • London • archeology • William Shakespeare

Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth

Lost ruins spotted
in Afghan desert

Jul 21, 08 3:34 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Afghanistan • Google Earth • archeology • desert

 Fossil Feces Revise History 

Evidence shows humans arrived in North America much earlier than thought

Apr 3, 08 9:43 PM CDT
(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... More »

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origins of humanity • archeology • fossil • Oregon • discovery

(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.... More »

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archeology • Viking • treasure • Yorkshire

First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

Scholars may have finally figured out
what the Antikythera Mechanism is

May 20, 07 9:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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technology • Antikythera • shipwreck • archeology • Derek de Solla Price • Greece • Aegean Sea • computer

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