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One more Chinese property on World Heritage List
Monday, July 7th, 2008
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One more Chinese property on World Heritage List
The 21 members of the committee agreed to add Tulou, the unique residential architecture of Fujian Province in southeastern China, on the World Heritage List as a cultural site, bringing the total number of Chinese properties on the list to 36.
Built from the 11th century to the 20th century in the mountainous areas across Fujian and neighboring provinces, the Tulou buildings were aimed at meeting the requirements of a whole clan to live together. They also serve other functions such as defense.
Cave in Jordan linked to early Christians
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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TheStar.com | sciencetech | Cave in Jordan linked to early Christians
AMMAN–Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world’s oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship.An outside expert expressed caution about the claim.
Archaeologist Abdel-Qader Hussein, head of the Rihab Center for Archaeological Studies, said this week the cave was unearthed in the northern Jordanian city of Rihab after three months of excavation and shows evidence of early Christian rituals.
UNESCO official reportedly backs Peru’s demand for Yale to return Machu Picchu relics | Peruvian Times
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The top representative of UNESCO in Lima said Sunday that Peru was well within its rights to demand Yale University return ten of thousands of artifacts and remains taken on loan nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, official state news agency Andina reported.
“The logical thing is for Peruvians to have access to the pieces, to know them,” Katherine Müller-Marin was quoted saying, adding that UNESCO has as one of its principles restoring archaeological treasures to their rightful owners. “The repatriation of archaeological pieces is a line of work that is developed to achieve the restoration of the pieces to their own sites of origin.”
DNA links Juneau man to ancient remains at glacier: Southeast | adn.com
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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DNA links Juneau man to ancient remains at glacier: Southeast | adn.com
DNA links Juneau man to ancient remains at glacier
DESCENDANTS: Study connects 17 people to the long-deceased.
Tse-whit-zen artifacts languish in storage
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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Local News | Tse-whit-zen artifacts languish in storage | Seattle Times Newspaper
One of the Pacific Northwest’s most astonishing archaeological finds in a generation has languished for more than a year, lingering on metal shelves in a Seattle warehouse, unseen by the public and unexamined by scientists.
Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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This is a cool site that has a Spanish language audio track that opens up when you go to their home page. From our “Try Check Out” (TCO) department.
Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check | Peruvian Times
Authorities in Peru’s hinterlands are accustomed to seizing all sorts of contraband stowed aboard the never-ending caravan of passenger buses that rumble across the Andes toward the capital, Lima:
Pre-Columbian artifacts sacked from ancient ruins. Religious relics and paintings torn from the walls of colonial era churches. Tons of Cocaine.
But in Peru’s Arequipa Department police were shocked this week to discover the fossilized jaw bone of a prehistoric animal on Tuesday that may have come from a triceratops some 70 million years ago.. […]
Feature - Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Business of the past: Artifacts from Asia
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
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More: Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
A suspected smuggler allegedly boasted he had more items from the Ban Chiang area than Thailand itselfGovernment agents raided many museums in California on Friday in search of antiquities believed to have been illegally obtained and smuggled into the US from Thailand and China, Southeast countries including Thailand, the Guardian online reported.
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