HISTORIC treasures buried under Peterborough’s Cathedral Square have revealed a little-known side to the city.
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From the ground, a 100-hectare site just north of Italy’s Venice airport looks like nothing more than rolling fields of corn and soybeans. But it’s actually home to a buried Roman metropolis called Altinum, considered the precursor of ancient Venice. Now, using sophisticated aerial imagery, researchers have brought this city to life once again.
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Bulgarian archaeologists are resuming on August 3 the excavation of Thracian temple complex near the village of Starosel in Southern Bulgaria.
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Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers — and not to tell you about it. There have been thousands of such requests lodged since the law was passed, and the F.B.I.’s own audits have shown that there can be plenty of overreach — perhaps wholly inadvertent — in requests like these.
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The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, outlined in the latest issue of Quaternary Science Review, humans were living in Gough’s Cave 14,700 years ago.
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Historic battlefields across Scotland are to be given more protection.
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Czech archaeologists are excavating the foundations of an ancient Roman lazaretto (hospital) in Pasohlavky, which is the largest facility of its kind from this period preserved north of the Danube River, archaeologist Balazs Komoroczy told CTK today.
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Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men—their heads stacked neatly to the side—have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month.
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This past Monday the Obama administration approved its first timber sale in a roadless area. The Orion North sale grants a Ketchikan lumber mill in the Tongass National Forest to clearcut 381 acres. This is a very disappointing decision, especially considering President Obama’s support for roadless areas as a senator and the pledge to uphold the 2001 Roadless Rule that he made as a presidential candidate.
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Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the state for decades.
Another illustration of that fact is the revelation that one of the UK government’s top advisors on swine flu also happens to be a sitting board member of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling dangerous and untested swine flu vaccines, as well as anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, to the NHS.
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