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The remains of a 30-year-old woman were found today at an archeological excavation in Pinczow, in the Swietokrzyska region, southern Poland. The body, identified as female, dates back 6,500 years.
The director of the dig, Przemyslaw Duleba, from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, stated that this is the oldest discovery every to be found in this region.

"The skeleton of the young woman is perfectly preserved and laid on her left side in an embryonic position."

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A Research team, headed by eminent archaeologist, Dr Kudavayil Balasubramaniam, recently stumbled upon an ancient idol of Kulothunga Chola-III (1178-1218 AD) during a field study at Tiruvidaimarudur in Tiruvukkuvalai taluk in Nagapattinam district.

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People will soon be able to operate their own virtual submersibles to explore hidden treasures at deep underwater archaeological sites.
Shipwrecks and their priceless cargoes remain under threat from erosion, deep-sea trawling activity and looting.
The Venus project team has generated 3D digital records of underwater European shipwrecks that can act as a permanent record of these sites.
The simulator is being unveiled at the BA Science Festival in Liverpool.

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Oetzi the Iceman Dressed Like a Herdsman
A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, has use in the modern clothing industry.

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A team of Princeton computer scientists has developed an automated system for reconstructing an excavated fresco, mosaic or similar archaeological object. Collaborating closely with archaeologists in Greece, the team has created a system that employs a combination of powerful computer algorithms and a processing system mirroring the procedures traditionally followed at excavation sites.

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Roman temple ruins from the 2nd century A.D. have emerged from excavations at the ancient Jewish capital of the Galilee in Israel.
The discovery shows that the city of Zippori housed a significant pagan population which built a temple in the city centre during the Roman period. The central location of the temple lies within a walled courtyard, and may help archaeologists better understand the urban layout of Zippori in the Roman era.

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An archaeological excavation team from the British Museum in Sidon, Lebanon, have unearthed a new grave containing human skeletal remains belonging to a Canaanite warrior, dating back to 4,000 years.
According to a report in The Daily Star, the delegation made the discovery at the "Freres" excavation site near Sidon's crusader castle.

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Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
In work published online in Nature this week, Professor Richard Evershed and colleagues describe how the analysis of more than 2,200 pottery vessels from southeastern Europe, Anatolia and the Levant extends the early history of milk by two millennia to the seventh millennium BC.

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David Thomas, a PhD student in La Trobe University's archaeological program in Melbourne, has used Google Earth to safely uncover historic sites in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan.
Using the free internet resource, Thomas found up to 450 possible archaeological sites in Registan, which borders Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southern Afghanistan.

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