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Team May Have Found Sword Hilt Belonging to Blackbeard

Archaeologists who have been searching the sunken Queen Anne's Revenge for more than a decade found a gilded sword hilt that may have belonged to the infamous 18th century pirate Blackbeard. National Geographic published photos released by the team, which has been excavating the sunken ship off the coast of North Carolina...

Was 4100 BC a Good Year? World's Oldest Winery Found

Wine lovers' quest for the perfect, full-bodied red is apparently older than anyone realized. In a cave complex in Armenia, archaeologists from the University of California have unearthed what they believe is the world's oldest winery, from 6,100 years ago. Inside the cave, Copper Age vintners are believed to have...

Swiss Archaeologists Find 5,000-Year-Old Door [PHOTO]

GENEVA (Oct. 21) -- Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe. The ancient poplar wood door is "solid and elegant" with well-preserved hinges and a "remarkable" design for holding the boards together, chief archaeologist Niels...

Fark's Weird News Quiz (Bored Extraterrestrials Edition)

(July 23) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange-news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below. 1. One Home Depot store found itself taking down a banner after one of its customers noticed that: a) The banner meant to "recognize...

Archaeologists Discover Stonehenge's Timber Twin

LONDON (July 22) -- Stonehenge, that ancient and mysterious circle of giant obelisks on England's Salisbury Plain, may once have had a nearby wooden "twin," according to a pioneering new archaeological survey. "The idea of finding something as significant and dramatic as this monument, so close to Stonehenge, is just...

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05/29/12 Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history Source: Lincoln Daily News - Lincoln IL Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it."
05/27/12 Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history Source: Laramie Boomerang - Laramie WY Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
05/26/12 Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history Source: Leader-Observer - Queens NY Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
05/25/12 Board of Overseers of the Penn Museum presented... Source: PRWeb New York, NY (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Founded in 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has become one of the largest archeological and anthropological collections in the United States, and has conducted more than 400 research expeditions around the world.
05/09/12 Google's doodle for Harrison Ford, wait, Howard Carter Source: CNET News.com One would like to be a fly in the distilled water at one of Google's doodle team meetings.

Background on archaeologists

Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek , archaiologia – , arkhaios, "ancient"; and , -logia, "-logy"), is the study of human activity, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).

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