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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 51 Number 6, November/December 1998
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| Early Church at Aqaba |
The remains of the oldest known structure designed and built as a church have been found at the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. |
| Golden Phiale Appeal |
Oral arguments over financier Michael Steinhardt's appeal in the case of a gold bowl claimed by Italy were scheduled to be heard this fall. |
| Laozi Debate |
The 1993 discovery of the oldest version of a seminal Daoist text in China has provoked scholarly debate about the origins of the Daoist and Confucian traditions. |
| Vintage Canal Boats |
Two canal boats in the James River & Kanawa Canal have been unearthed in Richmond, Virginia. |
| A Byzantine Plot? |
Ruins of the palace that was the seat of government for the eastern Roman and Byzantine empires for more than a millennium have been found beneath Istanbul's streets. |
| Jinmium Redated |
Results of radiocarbon and optical dating confirm that occupation debris in Australia's Jinmium Rockshelter is no more than 10,000 years old. |
| History in the Chapel Cellar |
Renovation of the eighteenth-century Notre Dame de Bonsecours Chapel has led to the discovery of the foundations of the first chapel built on the site in 1675. |
| Chauvet Study Begins |
The French government has finally expropriated the land around Chauvet Cave and allowed a team to begin a four-year research program. |
| Buhl Woman |
An 11,000-year-old skeleton of a woman found in Idaho in 1989 is yielding important information about Paleoindian skeletal morphology and diet. |
| Kennewick Update 2 |
After two years of wrangling, Kennewick Man will finally be subjected to a thorough examination. |
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