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Keyword - Archaeology

- Downturn hits Chicago's natural history museum - Premium content
  
  Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.
  
  23 December 2008
- Georgian science pays price of conflict - Premium content
  
  Conflict with Russia puts reforms in jeopardy.
  
  26 August 2008
- Back when the desert was green - Premium content
  
  Burial site offers rare glimpse of daily life in the stone-age Sahara.
  
  14 August 2008
- Archaeology: The lost world - Premium content
  
  Armed with a map depicting a 10,000-year-old landscape submerged beneath the North Sea and fresh evidence from nearby sites, archaeologists are realizing that early humans were more territorial than was previously thought. Laura Spinney reports.
  
  9 July 2008
- Early Americans had a coastal diet - Premium content
  
  Settlers travelled to the coast to get their seaweed.
  
  8 May 2008
- Ancient Buddhas painted in oils - Premium content
  
  Were painters on the Silk Road way ahead of the Europeans?
  
  22 April 2008
- Deal for Holy Land artefacts - Premium content
  
  Israel and Palestine draft an agreement on how to allocate archaeological sites.
  
  16 April 2008
- Fossil faeces pinpoint earliest North Americans - Premium content
  
  Evidence confirms humans were in the Americas more than 14,000 years ago.
  
  3 April 2008
- Archaeology: Facing up to the past - Premium content
  
  New York University is trying to establish a world-class archaeological institute #20; with funds from a philanthropist who has been linked to looted artefacts. Rex Dalton reports.
  
  5 March 2008
- Archaeology: Pieces of the puzzle - Premium content
  
  After decades of war, looting and destruction, Afghanistan's archaeologists are scrambling to restore their country's cultural heritage. Rex Dalton visited Kabul to see how they are faring.
  
  12 December 2007