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News From Wednesday, July 28, 2010
11:29:31 PM Team finds ship missing in Arctic for over 150 years
CTV.ca

"We had an opening, the lead archaeologist Ryan Harris and his team were on the boat with the fish in the water, the side-scan in the water, and according ... [more]

11:25:46 PM Cave Creek Museum seeks Japanese Flag, Antique Bottles, and volunteers
Sonoran News - Cave Creek,AZ,USA

In addition, the Archaeology Wing will include items from an archaeological dig on the Shoger property. Artifacts from this site have never been exhibited ... [more]

10:28:51 PM St. Ivan Island reliquary is the first discovered within archaeological ...
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria

“The reliquary found on St. Ivan Island is the first to be discovered within archaeological environment in the entire Southern Black Sea coast. ... [more]

7:59:12 PM Unearthing Fort Richmond
Brunswick Times Record - ME, United States

Leith Smith, who oversees the dig with fellow Maine Historical Preservation Commission archaeologist John Mosher, said state transportation officials are ... [more]

7:48:41 PM Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered
The Associated Press

Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said Wednesday the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow ... [more]

7:23:07 PM Chimney Point Site Yields Archaeological Discoveries
Vermont Public Radio - Colchester,VT,USA

So archaeologists have long known about its probable existence. But there was a general assumption that the bridge construction would have damaged or ruined ... [more]

5:15:07 PM Photos - Giant Dog Sized Rat Unearthed
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA

By Gene Byrd The remains of a rat the size of a dog has been unearthed by Australian archaeologists. The researchers say they have uncovered the remains of ... [more]

5:12:11 PM Archaeological dig concludes
Hastings Star Gazette - Hastings,MN,USA

A six-week-long archaeological excavation recently concluded in downtown Hastings near the Highway 61 bridge. Crews from Two Pines Resource Group conduct an ... [more]

3:40:39 PM Archaeology group scoops top award
Derbyshire Times - Chesterfield,England,UK

Longstone Local History Group won the accolade for the best community archaeology project in the 2010 awards presented at the British Museum. ... [more]

3:31:48 PM The SS World Trade Center Sets Sail
New York Times (blog)

The wood-hulled ship was an object of instant archaeological interest and popular speculation. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey worked around ... [more]

3:00:05 PM Biblical Mystery of Dead Sea Scrolls Solved?
FOX News - USA

It could have been groups of different Jews," said Robert Cargill, an archaeologist who appears in the documentary Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls, .... [more]

2:33:14 PM Searching the seas for proof of China's far horizons
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Archaeologists are closing in on the ship of a Ming dynasty hero, write Xan Rice and Tania Branigan. t is another chapter in the now-familiar story of .... [more]

1:55:12 PM Archaeology: Excavations on St. Ivan island reveal potential relics from
Sofia Echo - Sofia,Bulgaria

Sofia Echo Archaeological research was carried out after 1985 for aa period of two years, which revealed a royal residence, a library, part of the fortified wall with ... [more]

12:02:32 PM UF archaeologist finds remains near Silver Glen Springs
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA

By Austin L. Miller SILVER SPRINGS - An archaeologist from the University of Florida on Monday found human remains estimated to be hundreds of years old. ... [more]

9:15:58 AM Local news and events
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville will host Archaeology Day on Saturday, Aug. 7, from 10 am-4 pm The event is free. ... [more]

6:58:15 AM Pressure mounts for Mideast talks as Israel's settlement freeze nears end
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman tours an archaeology site atop Mount Gerizim. He has been on a settlement solidarity tour. ... [more]

3:08:19 AM Archaeology meets genealogy at Niles dig
Niles Daily Star - MI, USA

Isaiah Zoschke, a Western Michigan University archaeology student, works on "wet screening," a process that separates archaeological material from dirt. ... [more]

1:01:47 AM Getting the dirt on Gilded Age high society
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Archaeologists dig up remnants of everyday life on the Gold Coast a century ago; Listerine floor cleaner, anyone? By William Mullen, Tribune Reporter .... [more]



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