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New York Times
March 7, 2018
ROME — For archaeologists, the excavation of Rome's newest subway line has been the gift that keeps on giving. Two years after a second-century military barracks was found during the excavation of the Amba Aradam station, archaeologists last week presented the remains of a richly decorated domus,Ãâà...
Haaretz
January 19, 2018
This will create a useful tool for future archaeologists to easily date the same layers once they dig them up elsewhere in the city, he notes. Radiocarbon dating could help resolve other historical questions, too. Little is known, for example, of how Jerusalem looked in the various phases of the Bronze Age,Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
January 17, 2018
For Victor T. Mastone, it started as a child, when he used to dig holes in the hopes of finding buried treasure underneath the porch of his family's home in ... The 18th-century pirate ship that sank off Cape Cod stirred passionate ethical and legal debates about how archeologists should deal with “treasureÃâà...
BBC News
January 7, 2018
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a rare prehistoric site near Tel Aviv described as a "paradise" for hunter-gatherers living 500,000 years ago. The site, next to a busy motorway at Jaljulia, has revealed hundreds of flint axes and other artefacts. Experts say the area had a stream, vegetation and anÃâà...
CBS News
November 17, 2017
NEW YORK -- If you had to think of a good site for an archaeological dig, you probably wouldn't think of the Children's Workshop School in Manhattan, New York. You almost certainly wouldn't think of Miriam Sicherman's third-grade classroom. And you definitely wouldn't think of her coat closet. It's not likeÃâà...
Toronto Star
November 13, 2017
Archeologists from Canada are among a team of researchers who say they've unearthed the earliest evidence of winemaking in the world, dating the origin of the practice back hundreds of years ... “Seeds by themselves, they are organic, so they will disappear in the archeological record,” Batiuk said.
The Boston Globe
November 10, 2017
“This is a little intimidating,” archeologist Joe Bagley said as he handled the pottery with care. “As far as we know, this is the oldest piece of European ceramic ever found in Boston.” The remarkable discovery, made near the Paul Revere House in the North End, delighted Bagley, who has dug up tens ofÃâà...
Toronto Star
October 17, 2017
Archeological dig at site of former Parliament in Montreal reveals stamps, burned books and oyster shells ... Now, 168 years later, archeologists who have been excavating the site that had been a city parking lot for most of the last 90 years believe they have found the official copper alloy stamp that wasÃâà...
Haaretz
October 16, 2017
Major new archeological excavations in Jerusalem have uncovered a long lost Roman theatre and eight more stone layers of the Western Wall, the Israel ... The discovery of the theater-like structure is the real drama," Dr. Joe Uziel, Tehillah Lieberman and Dr. Avi Solomon, the archeologists in charge of theÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
August 14, 2017
There's an archaeological race against time underway in France as archaeologists work to save artifacts from a site dubbed as a “mini Pompeii.” This discovery of these 2,000-year-old Roman ruins is being called perhaps the most important of its kind in the past 50 years. Special correspondent MalcolmÃâà...
Haaretz
August 10, 2017
Senior archeologists from both within the Authority and outside it warn that the decision to privatize such archeological rescue digs will lead to an unprecedented destruction of ... To put this in perspective, this one dig is larger than all the salvage digs conducted in Israel on average in a single year. The BeitÃâà...
Toronto Star
July 25, 2017
And three months after council approved more funding to salvage archeological artifacts found at the new St. Lawrence Market north building site, the work has not ... Objects like this were cleaned off and stowed away, said Peter Popkin, an archeologist who explored the site during the excavation phase.
The Boston Globe
July 11, 2017
An archaeological dig is underway at the Pierce-Hichborn house in Boston's North End. Built in 1711, it's the fifth-oldest house in the city and was once owned by Paul Revere's cousin, and no one knows what could be lurking below the surface of the brick-lined alleyway next to it. “It's an important propertyÃâà...
Korea Times
July 10, 2017
If President Moon were to get acceptance from Kim Jong-un in North Korea for this exchange and persuade President Donald Trump to negotiate it (the ... meetings about joint Olympic teams, discussions about a joint N.K.-S.K. dictionary, archeological digs, conferences on Dangun ― just to re-direct theirÃâà...
Sixth Tone
May 3, 2017
It is worth noting that while China drew heavily on Soviet politics, thought, and academics during this period, there was not a single instance of archeological cooperation between the two until the 1980s. Other than a few excavations carried out in partnership with North Korea, Chinese archeology wasÃâà...
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