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• Field Techs Needed - ND and IL

  16-10-2018 23:16
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• New Thoughts on Pompeii’s Last Day

  16-10-2018 22:41 via archaeology.org
  NAPLES, ITALY—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have found an inscription in Pompeii that calls into question the timing of the fatal eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The charcoal scrawl, perhaps made by a construction worker, records a date that corresponds to October 17, A.D. 79, or about two months after August 24—the date settled upon by historians for the natural disaster based upon copies of letters written by Pliny the Younger, a lawyer and author, to Tacitu
  
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• Five Shipwrecks Found Near Greece’s Fourni Islands

  16-10-2018 22:41 via archaeology.org
  ATHENS, GREECE—The Greek Culture Ministry announced that five additional vessels have been discovered in the ship graveyard off the coast of the Fourni Islands, bringing the total number of ships found there to 58, according to an Associated Press report. The area in the Aegean Sea, at the junction of two main shipping routes, is known for its treacherous waters, and contains wrecks dating from the fourth century B.C. through the nineteenth century A.D. The newly discovered ships rest in s
  
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• Viking Ship Burial Discovered in Norway

  16-10-2018 19:37 via archaeology.org
  OSLO, NORWAY—The Guardian reports that a buried Viking ship, traces of eight other burial mounds, and five longhouses have been detected in farmland in southeast Norway using high-resolution ground-penetrating radar. Lars Gustavsen of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) said the study suggests the area surrounding the surviving Jelle mound had been a cemetery designed to display the power and influence of Viking leaders. The mound that once covered the newly disco
  
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