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Friday, March 9, 2007

The Top 6 Archaeology Stories of 2006

A tattooed iceman, figs as first farming, the Temple of the Fox, and more...

New Tomb Found In Valley of the Kings
Archaeologists uncovered the first new tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since 1922...

Oldest Writing In New World Found
Workers digging in Mexico unearthed the oldest script ever found in the Western Hemisphere...

Peruvian Dig Uncovers First Western Observatory
The Temple of the Fox, located in the Chillón Valley in Peru, probably served as a rough farmers' almanac...

Old Beads Hint at Dawn Of Culture
Grape-size shell beads dated between 100,000 and 135,000 years old are the world's oldest known jewelry...

Mongolian Ice Yields Scythian Mummy
Last summer researchers recovered a 2,200-year-old Scythian mummy from permafrost...

Did Figs Beget Agriculture?
New research has pegged the fig as the first crop...
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