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Tel es-Sultan
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Jerusalem, Asharq Al-Awsat- Approximately two kilometres away from Jerichos city centre lies Tel es-Sultan (Sultans Hill), the oval-shaped mound that the oasis of Jericho, the oldest city in the world, is famous for. The worlds earliest settlement was located at Tel es-Sultan, which stands in the form of several layers of habitation that make up todays mound.
And yet despite its importance and its ability to attract the worlds greatest researchers, it is not included on the World Heritage List, which is precisely what the Palestinian Authoritys Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage is striving to accomplish presently.
Director of the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Hamdan Taha, has announced that the department has started the procedures to register Tel es-Sultan, the town of Bethlehem and the ancient al Mahd Church (Church of Nativity) on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Church of Nativity is considered to be one of the most famous churches in Christian tradition, as it is built on the area where, it is believed, that Jesus was born.
The department has sent documents to the relevant parties who are also backing the process; which are both the Arab and Islamic communities, in addition to the European Union group that is part of the World Heritage Committee.
Perhaps Tel es-Sultan is less famous than the Church of Nativity in the eyes of the world. The story of Tel es-Sultan began with the pioneering work of British archaeologist, Dame Kathleen Kenyon of the Institute of Archaeology in London, who arrived at the site in 1951. She stunned the world with her discovery of the earliest human habitation dating back to 9000 BCE.

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Archaeologists in Gothenburg (Sweden) have found the remains of an early Stone Age house. The discovery was made on a building site in the Kallebäck area of the city. Residents of the new apartments being built in the area will be living on a site inhabited 10,000 years ago.
Kallebäck now lies about 5 kilometres from the open sea, but in the stone age the area was a headland jutting out into the sea.

"They most probably fished, and would certainly have hunted for seal. This was right at the end of a headland, and this means that there was access to animals for hunting" - Archaeologist Ulf Ragnesten.

The discovery is the first of its kind in the region: people first came to the area around 12,000 years ago. The site has also yielded comparatively recent archaeological finds, with Iron Age remains from between 600 BCE to 1 CE. Among the discoveries are cooking holes, grates, an arrowhead, axes and postholes.

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The Liberec region in north Bohemia is proud of its cultural attractions. Dozens of sites, from castle ruins to glass museums, are prominently promoted on its regional Web page.
If archaeologist Petr Brestanovsky had his way, another site would be added to this list. But the Czech Republics spotty record preserving archaeological sites could mean his vision of an open-air museum, exhibiting the regions newly discovered prehistoric settlement, may not come to pass. And a dearth of money and political will to fully explore the site could leave its treasures buried indefinitely.
Brestanovskys dream of an archaeological park began early April during a routine excavation in the small town of Píovice, roughly 50 kilometres outside Prague. There, in a 4-hectare stretch of land between a highway and railroad tracks, Brestanovskys team discovered scores of houses and objects belonging to a civilization from some 6,500 years ago.

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Promotion of a pre-historical item, a music instrument called ball flute of Macedonia will be held at the Mala Stanica Multimedia centre at 7.00 p.m. today.
The instrument was unearthed at Mramorot archaeological site near the village of Caska. Years long excavations of Mramorot have shown existence of a Neolithic settlement fitting in a wide time span from 5000 to 4000 B.C.

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French archaeologists said on Tuesday that they had uncovered the remains of three large towns that may have been the heart of a legendary Islamic kingdom in Ethiopia.
Ancient manuscripts have long told of the kingdom of Shoa, which between the 10th and 16th centuries straddled key trade routes between the Christian highlands and Muslim ports on the Red Sea. But Shoa's precise place on the map has never been clear.
The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said a team of archaeologists had laid bare the remains of three medieval towns, Asbari, Masal and Nora, on a high escarpment of the Rift Valley.
Shoa - also written as Shewa - was an autonomous state from about the 10th century until it was absorbed by the sultanate of Ifat at around the end of the 13th century.

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Neolithic settlement in Ptolemais plain
A settlement dating back to the Neolithic period (approx. 6,500-6,000 BC) has been uncovered during an archaeological dig in the Ptolemais plain, in an area situated at an altitude of 700 metres, between Mts. Vermio and Askio and called Yellow Lake (due to the marsh that had developed there and was dried up in the middle of the 20th century).
The new finds were presented Friday night at a special event at the Archaeological Museum in Aiani, Kozani, where the older finds from the region are housed and on display.
It is believed to be the one of the oldest settlement in the Balkans, following a settlement discovered in Nikomideia, Imathia prefecture.
A dense dwelling complex has been discovered, with 31 distinct positions confirmed. Digging has been conducted in the region for approximately 20 years, and extends over tens of stremma, but are hampered by the fact that many of the positions are inside the Public Power Corporation's (PPC) expanse of lignite mines development.
The digs are being funded by the PPC, as required under legislation concerning archaeology, but the increasing need for mining larger quantities of lignite creates problems for the digs, given that the rate of growth of technology and energy needs is speedier than the archaeological research, according to archaeologist George Karamitrou-Mentesidi.

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Bronze Age settlement uncovered at the Links o' Noltland
After 26 years, archaeologists have returned to excavate a prehistoric settlement at Westray’s Links o' Noltland.
Work on the settlement — thought to be up to four times the size of Skara Brae — began last month following concerns that erosion could obliterate recently-exposed archaeology.
The Links o' Noltland is an area of sand dunes behind Grobust Bay on the north-west coast of Westray. These dunes are subject to severe erosion by the wind, a problem made worse by the activity of rabbits.

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Once a safe haven that sheltered people against invaders, the ancient underground labyrinth in Nooshabad in the central province of Isfahan will soon be open to the public for the first time as a new tourist attraction.
Built in the Sassanid era (224 AD), the labyrinth is a massive three-storey underground facility equipped with a ventilation system and wells

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First-Ever Dwelling Mound Found in Germany
A 7,000-year-old dwelling mound has been found in Germany, causing a stir among archaeologists. It is the first find of its kind in Western Europe.
A room with a view has always been a coveted thing. Over the millennia, humans discovered that it could be achieved by simply staying put over generations and not picking up the garbage. By building and rebuilding on the rubble of their own architectural remains, sedentary humans managed to achieve an impressive height.

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Archaeologists in northern Greece revealed Saturday that they have uncovered traces of prehistoric settlements, some dating back 8,000 years.
The settlements were unearthed in a region surrounded by four lakes — Vegoritida, Heimaditida, Petron and Zazari_ between the towns of Kozani and Florina, 160 kilometres west of Thessaloniki, archaeologists said at the end of a three-day annual archaeology conference in Thessaloniki.
Excavations, which began in September 2003, have yielded 53 clay figurines, stone tools, fossilized lentils as well as traces of small moats around what appeared to be primitive dwellings.
Some 24 Neolithic settlements have been discovered in the area since 2003
The first traces of human settlement in Greece date back to at least 40,000 B.C.

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