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The Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, has ordered that some work be stopped in an area surrounding a prehistoric find on part of the planned route of the M3 motorway in Co Meath.
It follows the finding of what has been described as a substantial national monument at Lismullen, beside the Hill of Tara.
On Monday, the Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, turned the first sod on the M3 motorway.
The archaeological site is said to be the size of three football fields.

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A 2000 year old lead ingot mined by the Romans shortly after they conquered Britain is expected to fetch up to £12,000 when it goes under the hammer this month.
The 154lb ingot, known as a 'pig', was mined by Romans in North Yorkshire, and would have been due to be made into piping of waterproof lining for roofs. Silver could also be extracted from it.

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Papertech project
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While there is huge interest in preserving great works of archaeological, historical or artistic value, there is no escaping the fact that the oxidation process means all paper-based artefacts will have a limited shelf life and not last forever.
The EU-funded Papertech project has taken up the delicate challenge of finding techniques to prolong the lives of these valuable works. It has developed a triangle of innovations which could become the de facto protocols for the diagnostic, restoration and conservation of paper-based artefacts.

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2,000-year-old remains found in Clare
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Six human skeletons that possibly date back to pre-Christian times have been discovered by archaeologists in Co Clare.
The 2,000-year-old remains were found during works to a local water network at Barnhill, near Newmarket-on-Fergus.
Clare County Council has suspended work on the affected part of the site subject to the issuing of an excavation licence by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. This is expected to be issued this week.

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Wisbech Roman villa
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Pupils on a historical dig unearthed the ancient mysteries of Roman life in the area this week.
Pupils from Cromwell Community College and Arthur Mellows Village College worked with a team of experts, led by Carenza Lewis from Channel 4s Time Team, to uncover the secret history of Wisbech.
The dig was centred around St Marys Church, but residents in the surrounding area offered their back gardens for use by the young archaeologists.
The star find for the budding Tony Robinsons was the remains of a 2,000- year-old Roman villa, and tiles from its central heating system.
About 20 pupils joined in the dig, which was a follow-up to a similar event last year. The previous excavation had answered many questions about the history of the area, but large gaps were left in the period between when the Romans left, about 400AD, and when the plague hit Britain, about 1400.

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It's a nondescript area of the Mayan ruins here, the original entrance to what is now known as Lubaantun, or "place of falling stones." But it's the site of an enduring modern mystery.
A  mystical crystal  skull was supposedly discovered on New Year's Day of 1924, by Anna Mitchell-Hedges, an orphan from Port Colborne, Ont. Anna had been adopted by British adventurer and story-spinner Frederick Mitchell-Hedges, who was excavating the Lubaantun ruins, looking for clues about the lost city of Atlantis.
Remarkably, it just happened to be Anna's 17th birthday.
She had spotted something shining deep inside a chamber of the ruins and was lowered by ropes to investigate. What she found was a wondrous piece of quartz crystal carved in the shape of a skull. The detachable crystal jawbone was found later.

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The Council for British Archaeology and a number of other archaeological organisations have voiced extreme concerns about a commercial treasure hunting contract between the UK Government (negotiated by the Ministry of Defence, Disposal Services Agency (DSA)) and a US underwater salvage company, Marine Odyssey Exploration Inc., to recover bullion from a wreck which the salvors believe to be that of the 17th century Warship Sussex, which sank off Gibraltar in 1694.

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Spartans Overwhelmed at Thermopylae, Again
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A technically exciting videogame of a film, 300 loses touch with a critical and moving event in Greek history.
Herodotus, the “Father of History,” told many good stories, but there are few tales in his repertoire that surpass his narrative of the last-ditch stand of the Greeks against numerically superior forces at the pass of Thermopylae in August, 480 B.C. A huge military force led by Xerxes, the Persian King of Kings, crossed the Hellespont from Asia into Europe, intent on the subjugation of Greece. Whether Xerxes intended this invasion as revenge for the Athenian victory over the Persians at Marathon a decade earlier or whether his expedition had been planned all along as the natural extension of Persian rule into Europe is still a matter of debate among modern historians.

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Perfumes sniffed out
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The world’s oldest perfumes have been found on Cyprus by a team of archaeologists.
The perfumes were scented with extracts of lavender, bay, rosemary, pine or coriander and kept in tiny, translucent alabaster bottles. The remaining traces found in Pyrgos, in the south of the island, are more than 4000 years old.
The scents were discovered inside what archaeologists believe was an enormous, 4000sq m factory.

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Vietnamese imperial altar
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Vietnam experts to dig for 900-year-old imperial altar
Ha Van Phung, director of the Vietnamese Institute for Archaeology, said experts would explore a 400squ.m site for the Dan Nam Giao-Thang Long, believed to be constructed during King Ly Anh Tong’s reign in what was now Hai Ba Trung district.
Recently, while digging for a foundation to build a supermarket, masons found several square bricks which archaeologist suspect belong to the relic.
The supermarket project is now suspended.
Experts say the kings prayed to the heavens at the altar for peace and prosperity.

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