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Archaeologists from TVs Time Team believe they have unearthed an important Welsh link with King Harold, dating from a year before his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Aptly, the Saxon hunting lodge they found was uncovered in a corner of south-east Monmouthshire called Harolds Field, in line with local lore.
The Channel Four crew spent three days last year excavating a field in the village of Portskewett, near Chepstow, in the first and only dig allowed on the site.

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Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, lost harbour town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago.

This is really a remarkable find. It is rare indeed to locate an entire town built during the Late Bronze Age that shows this level of preservation - Professor Daniel J. Pullen, chairman of FSUs Department of Classics.

Pullen and a colleague, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies Thomas F. Tartaron of the University of Pennsylvania, led students from both universities in conducting an initial study of the site during May and June of 2007. What they found was unique: an archaeological site that required very little digging.

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An ancient human burial site, estimated to be 3,000 years old, was unearthed at Drugdhamna on Nagpur-Amravati road by the department of ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, recently.

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A massive stone-age tomb has been unearthed at Bokkepatna, near Kambalagadde in Haladi village here, on the land owned by Ratnakar Hegde, stated Dr B Jagdish Shetty, head of the department of Poornaprajna College on Thursday, January 24.
The tomb was discovered when levelling a hillock. Dr B Jagdish Shetty, accompanied by Prof Gurumurthy K K, head of the department of history, Cross Land College, Brahmavar, while visiting the site found that the entrance of a circular shaped tomb was covered with stone slabs, while the bottom looked like a semi-circle, Dr Shetty said.

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A thousand-year-old stone tablet known as the Sanggurah Stone, or more commonly the "Minto" stone, is expected to be returned to its home in Indonesia from Scotland before the end of 2008.
The return will be made possible thanks to Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who is currently working with high-profile artifact theft from Surakarta museum.
The historical artefact originated from Malang, East Java, weighs around three tons and is two meters tall. It is held in Roxburghshire, Scotland.

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A new DNA technique could provide a revolutionary insight into the lives of the Ancient Greeks - using jars that have lain on the seabed for millennia.
These amphoras were the cargo containers of the ancient world, used for shipping all kinds of things, from wine to olive oil.
Studying those left in shipwrecks could tell us much about the trade, agriculture and climate of historic societies - except that the contents wash away over the centuries, leaving archaeologists with glorified empty bottles.
Now a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US and Lund University in Sweden has performed the first successful extraction of DNA from the remains of a 2,400-year-old shipwreck off the Greek island of Chios.

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Gone are the days of a fearless Indiana Jones battling through the jungle in search of ancient treasures. Today's archaeologists are using high-tech tools, from NASA satellites to Google Earth, do the hard work for them.
If they haven't been destroyed or dismantled, many ancient structures were long ago enveloped by soil, water, sand, volcanic ash, or thick vegetation. Though they might not be obvious to the naked eye, archaeologists are learning how to spot them.
Since the First World War, aerial photography from low-flying aircraft has been widely used. These images can help to pick out relics betrayed by unusual mounds, lines or disjointed landscapes. In other places, buried structures are completely invisible to the naked eye. But they still betray clues to their whereabouts, just not with visible light.
The human eye can detect wavelengths of light within the range of around 400 to 700 nanometres. But cameras attached to satellites and aircraft are now taking infrared and ultraviolet shots over a much wider range of wavelengths and revealing some remarkable details about ancient civilisations.

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One of Viet Nams most enduring pieces of cultural heritage is explored in a new Vietnamese-language book called Ca Tru: Lich Su va Nghe Thuat or Ca Tru: History and Art.
Researcher Nguyen Xuan Diens detailed studies of the ancient ceremonial song has already received critical acclaim from experts in the field.

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Beirut cashes in on wealth of archaeological sites
: Passing through the many narrow avenues that make up Achrafieh, few would realise that major archaeological excavations are under way all around them. The Beirut neighbourhood has been experiencing a development boom in the past few years, and construction projects are ongoing, yet in the midst of all this local archaeologists have been experiencing a boom of their own.
Construction companies clearing away old buildings to make room for new luxurious high-rises have unearthed the remnants of nearly 5,000 years of successive civilizations. Assad Seif, head of archaeological research and examination in Lebanon, said this includes layers of Ottoman, Roman, Persian and Hellenic civilizations.

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A new project to understand how ancient cultures travelled and settled southern Asia has uncovered a particularly compassionate and inclusive late Stone Age community in northern Vietnam.
Dr Marc Oxenham sits in a shaded, grim pit dug a metre down into the limey earth of northern Vietnam. From above it would appear to be a strange scene, at once macabre and compelling, because he is surrounded by some 40 excavated skeletons, each 3,500 years old.
Yet these are more than just old bones.
Over the lip of the pit, which is situated at the base of a giant limestone monolith, are flat plains made green by the oppressively humid climate that fall away towards the small village of Man Bac. There is a modern cemetery nearby, with white crosses at the head of each grave.

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