Diamond reveals hidden writings
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A light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun could soon be helping scientists to read ancient manuscripts.
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German academics believe they have  solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the  "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.
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An ancient secret to unburden? A postcard, a stamp, and any private torment or personal shame can be confided anonymously to the world via an artist's website which has become a new hit of the Internet.
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ORANGE, Calif. - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago.  Bret Allen Langford, 39, allegedly asked the owner of a Jewelry Express store to show him a 2-carat colorless diamond in April 2005.
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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An Albert Einstein letter decrying the attentions of a Berlin socialite is among newly unsealed documents that promise to shed light on the private life of the 20th century&#039;s greatest physicist.
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Long-hidden items and documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are being revealed for the first time in decades.
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It's more than idle doodling and the meaning is unclear. But there's one thing researchers are sure of: The insect, ear of corn, inverted fish and other symbols inscribed on an ancient stone slab is the earliest known writing in the Western Hemisphere.
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A long-lost manuscript by Mark Rothko helps illuminate the philosophical underpinnings of Color Field paintings, the artist's greatest breakthrough.
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- German spies hid messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War II, according to British security service files.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years &#151; proof, they say, that Egypt's sands still have secrets to reveal.
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed - a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond.
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The Arthur M. Sackler Galleryâs show glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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Diamonds -- online -- can be an investor's best friend.
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Archaeologist claim to have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.