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Ancient Greek cave speaks of Hades myth

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Overlooking a quiet Greek bay far from Athens, Alepotrypa Cave contains the remains of a Stone Age village, burials, a lake and an amphitheater-sized final chamber in which blazing rituals...

Conservation plan in place for Guernsey Neolithic site

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As part of the final phase of the project to conserve a Neolithic gallery grave in Delancey Park (in Guernsey, a British Crown dependency located in the English Channel), archaeologist...

Estonian students find Iron Age life smoky and cold

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Five students in the small Baltic state of Estonia, who have abandoned modern conveniences for a week in a replica wooden hut built on the site of an ancient hill...

Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey?

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Archaeologists are investigating the truth behind the story that Ice Age Neanderthals in Jersey would push mammoths off cliffs in St Brelade for food. About 30 years ago, evidence suggested...

Underwater archaeology: The elusive Minoan wrecks

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Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, and his colleagues at Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, made a four-week survey of the waters around Crete...
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