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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 51 Number 2, March/April 1998
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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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Cypriot Church Art Found
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An eight-month sting operation in Germany has resulted in the recovery of stolen Cypriot church art. |
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Endangered
Clovis Sites
| Erosion and vandalism are destroying important Paleoindian sites in the San Pedro Valley, southeast of Tucson.
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Accessing
Cosquer Cave
| French researchers have rejected the idea of digging an entrance to the Grotte Cosquer, a Palaeolithic painted cave near Marseilles.
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Antiquities Scandal
| The Republic of Guatemala has demanded that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) return a number of Maya antiquities, claiming they were looted from archaeological sites within its borders.
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China's Oldest Map
| A group of scientists appraising artifacts in the Hebei Provincial Museum have discovered that a quarter-inch thick copper plate bears the world's oldest map clearly marked with distances.
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Tunnel Canceled
| Under pressure from a coalition of scholarly organizations, the Greek cabinet has decided to halt construction of a subway tunnel under the Kerameikos cemetery.
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Unique Terra-Cotta Fragments
| A Roman industrial site in Mainz, Germany, has yielded a kiln filled with finely worked fragments of terra-cotta figures and busts, presumably damaged during firing. |
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