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...centuries B.C. in Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey before being conquered by the Romans. Last July, he was taking a break from the valley to explore an enormous ancient temple near the central village of Starosel. But when the 62-year-old archaeologist, a short, plump man known as Bulgaria's Indiana Jones, got word that looters had been spotted in the valley - at the site of a mid-5th century B.C. tomb near Kazanlak, 170 km east of Sofia - he dropped what he was doing and rushed to the scene. Whatever was in that...
...When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...
...When news of their discovery broke last October, the remains of the 1-m-tall Homo floresiensis, nicknamed "hobbits," jolted the scientific world into rethinking the course of human development. Whether or not these relics from seven individuals, discovered by a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists led by archaeologist Michael Morwood, marked a new species, experts knew they were extremely important - and, it goes without saying, extraordinarily fragile...
...SEPTEMBER Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson argued in a new book that Atlantis is in fact Ireland, and the legend was inspired by the fate of the Dogger Bank, which sank into the North Sea in 6,100 B.C. SPRING 2005 A diving expedition led by French archaeologist Jacques Collina-Girard will try to prove that Atlantis lies just west of the Straits of Gibraltar. His team believes Plato exaggerated the city's splendors, and will look for signs of prehistoric civilization rather than temples of gold...
...archaeologists - denied permission by the Muslim authorities, the Waqf, to supervise the excavation - fear systematic destruction of Jewish relics. The debris contained pottery shards dating to the time of Solomon's Temple, according to Israeli officials. "This isn't a political dispute. It's a cultural intifadeh," says Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster...