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• Archaeologists say climate change destroys Arctic artifacts

• Inscription of name from Bible discovered

• Exploring ancient life in the Vale of Pewsey

• France: Unearthed 500BC Celtic tomb reveals golden necklace on prince - or is it a princess?

• Mexican researchers decode name on Mayan King Pakal's tomb: More than 60 years after the crypt was discovered, researchers have revealed its name as ‘The House of the Nine Sharpened Spears’

• British scientists hunt for Viking traces in Norman DNA

• Solving a Dark Age mystery: 7th century Christians, Pagans & the search for the Battle of Hatfield - The bid to tell the story of England’s 1st Christian king & early Pagan rituals. England of 632AD was entering a division into Christian doctrine versus still dominant Paganism.

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• Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Ancient Greek Bucranium Amulet in Black Sea Town Sozopol

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• Late Bronze-Age site destroyed by fire to be excavated further

• Ancient royal ring found in Karur riverbed, India

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• Archaeological work in Kaunos finds Anatolia's oldest saltpan facility

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• Archaeologists find 1,000-year-old pitcher in Jutland

• Stone tools from Jordan point to dawn of division of labor

• 450 Dead Babies Found in Athenian Well Shed Light on Ancient Greeks

• Unesco condemns bombing of historic Yemen capital site - World heritage body Unesco has condemned the destruction of "one of the world's oldest jewels" of Islamic culture in an air strike in Yemen.

• Burned Bones in Alexander the Great Tomb Give Up Few Secrets

• Hidden secrets of 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging - This map of the world drawn by Henricus Martellus in about 1491 was donated to Yale in 1962. Its faded condition has stymied researchers for decades.

• How Much Water Did Rome’s Aqueducts Really Carry?

• Stanford scholar debunks long-held beliefs about economic growth in ancient Greece

• Spain formally buries Cervantes

• 17th century French noblewoman found fully clothed in lead coffin

• Sarcophagus found in sand pit

• Construction Workers Busting Ruins of Ancient Thracian and Roman City Serdica in Bulgaria’s Capital Sofia, Report Says

In the Friday Free-For-All, somebody was asking about Sanxingdui, saying something about how they wanted more stuff examined from there or something.

Well... here you go: "Neolithic human skeleton found in Sanxingdui Ruins".

Three tombs were found under the city walls. (I think this means, like, people entombed within the walls themselves, or their foundations.)

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-uncover-why-mayan-civilizations-died-out