February 2012
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4500-year old Sumerian temple found in Ur →
caraobrien:
Iraqi and foreign archaeologists have uncovered a temple at the Sumerian city of Ur, which dates back to about 2500 B.C., the head of the Antiquities Department says.
January 2012
10 posts
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China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of...
archaeologicalnews:
China’s extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious archaeological evidence as they swipe irreplaceable relics.
The thieves use dynamite and even bulldozers to break into the deepest chambers – and night vision goggles and oxygen canisters to search them. The artefacts they take are...
December 2011
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November 2011
8 posts
tudor-rose:
I’ve been at uni for 3 weeks now. So far I have had to read books on the history of scatology, sexology, and other things best not mentioned.
Strange history course, this.
My second best class was on the history of sex — from the Egyptians to the 80s more or less. I learned a lot writing my paper on The Reformation and Marriage. (I think for me the most shocking material...
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October 2011
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