Heritage destruction in conflict zones provides archaeological opportunities
An international archaeological team is investigating an historic site devastated by conflict in Lebanon.
An international archaeological team is investigating an historic site devastated by conflict in Lebanon.
Archaeology
May 1, 2015
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Thai wildlife officials began a headcount Friday of nearly 150 tigers kept by monks at a temple which has become the centre of a dispute over the welfare of the animals.
Ecology
Apr 24, 2015
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Archaeologists excavating an ancient temple site in Cairo have discovered part of a chapel used by a pharaoh about 2,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities ministry said on Tuesday.
Archaeology
Apr 14, 2015
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Recent discoveries at Mexico's Teotihuacan ruin site suggest that water features may have been a key part of the complex.
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Long-lost paintings have been discovered on the walls of Cambodia's ancient Angkor Wat temple, thanks to the keen observations of an ANU researcher.
Archaeology
Jun 4, 2014
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(AP)—Egypt has announced that a team of European archaeologists have found a nearly 2-meter- (6 ½-foot-) tall alabaster statue of a pharoanic princess, dating from approximately 1350 B.C., outside the southern city of ...
Archaeology
Mar 7, 2014
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An archaeology team led by an academic from London's Kingston University has delved back into a Neolithic site at Damerham, Hampshire, and uncovered a sink hole of material that may hold vital information about the plant ...
Archaeology
Nov 27, 2013
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The Maya civilization is well-known for its elaborate temples, sophisticated writing system, and mathematical and astronomical developments, yet the civilization's origins remain something of a mystery.
Archaeology
Apr 25, 2013
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A small robot has discovered three possible burial chambers under a temple in Mexico's pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, a find that may reveal secrets about funeral rituals in the ancient site.
Archaeology
Apr 24, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Archeologist's Elsa Redmond and Charles Spencer of the American Museum of Natural History report on new developments at the ongoing excavation site in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico. In a paper they've had published ...