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Archaeology Weekly Roundup! 4/25/14
If you missed anything from the ASOR facebook or twitter pages this week, don’t worry. We’ve rounded up some of this week’s archaeology news into one convenient post. If we missed any major archaeological stories from this week, feel free to let us know in the comment section!
- WATCH LIVE: Deep-sea robot explores shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Virgin Mary Monastery to open to tourism
- Israel Antiquities Authority called after a group of hikers found human remains in a cave near Ein Tzurim.
- New artifacts suggest modern humans started leaving Africa 30k years earlier than previously thought.
- Race To Unearth Civil War-Era Artifacts Before Developer Digs In
- The ancient text, “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” has some new mystery surrounding it.
- Anthro students at University of Florida are using Oculus Rift to bring an ancient Mayan civilization back to life.
- Crowd-sourcing Britain’s Bronze Age
- Evolutionary advantages over extinct types of humans
- Like it spicy? Research says central-east Mexico is the birthplace of the domesticated chili pepper.
- Mummies, coins, and mummified fish dating back to the 26th Dynasty discovered at Al-Bahnasa in Egypt.
- Israel Antiquities Authority called after group of hikers find human remains in a cave near Ein Tzurim.
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