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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton

July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.


Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled

July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists ...


Mexico says US soldiers' remains found

July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Mexican archaeologists have found the remains of what appear to be four U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war, the government announced on Thursday.


Cathedral dig yields finds from 1700s New Orleans

July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver ...


Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient?

July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.


Siberian mammoths on display in Taiwan

July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- The frozen remains of two woolly mammoths - long extinct Ice Age elephants - went on display Friday in Taiwan.