Old script rewrites New World history
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Scientists announced yesterday that they have discovered ancient writing, carved in stone, that dramatically pushes back the dawn of writing in the Americas.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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Charred and brittle bits of fabric are providing new insights into the lives of prehistoric people, thanks to advances in chemical analysis of textiles.
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From 'pig mouths' money to 'tiger tongues,' numismatist Ronald Cristal sheds new light on history.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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Scientists have pieced together how a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator was built, revealing an astounding level of craftsmanship for its time.
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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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ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED the known world - from Greece to India in the fourth century BC Now, heâs getting a $155 million film version of his life by Oliver Stone and starring Colin Farrell.
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More overseas enterprise archaeology from an itinerant Fool.
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A real-time 3-D computer reconstruction allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again.
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical Lost World while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.