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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 50 Number 6, November/December 1997
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Latest News
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Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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Saxon Helmet Restored
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A Saxon princeling's iron helmet has been reassembled from pieces found in a seventh-century A.D. grave in Northamptonshire, England.
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Ancient European Hearth
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What may be one of Europe's oldest hearths has been found at a 400,000-year-old Stone Age site in southeastern England by archaeologists from Liverpool University.
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Masada Martyrs?
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Skeletons found at Masada by Yigael Yadin between 1963 and 1965 and later given a state burial by the Israeli government were not those of Jewish patriots but Roman soldiers.
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Nimrud Reliefs for Sale
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The stream of reliefs looted from Assyrian sites in Iraq continues to flow westward.
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Providence Prison
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A nineteenth-century prison notorious for its stench, overcrowding, and harsh regimen of solitary confinement has been uncovered beneath a parking lot in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
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Florida Treasure Hunters Fined
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A federal judge ordered Mel Fisher's treasure-hunting company, Salvors Inc., to pay a fine for destroying sea grass while searching without a permit for shipwrecks in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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Pyramid Closes
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The chambers inside the pyramid of the pharaoh Menkaure at Giza have been closed to visitors for cleaning and repair.
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Mediterranean Wrecks
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A submarine survey of the Mediterranean seabed has revealed the remains of eight ships.
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Athens' Road of Heroes
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Archaeologists digging in advance of a planned theater in downtown Athens have located part of a road they say is the Demosion Sima.
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