Ancient Curse, Modern War Hide Arabian Desert Tombs
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MEDA'IN SALEH, Saudi Arabia  - Sheltered from the  world by an ancient religious curse and modern Middle East  conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the  northern deserts of Saudi Arabia.
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Archaeologists working in Syria find the remains of youths probably killed in a fierce battle 6,000 years ago.
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A tunnel used by Palestinian weapons smugglers along the Egyptian border collapsed today, burying several people inside. Israeli military sources said the tunnel collapsed while an unknown number of Palestinians
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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan  - Life is grim when you   can't pay the rent on a scorpion-infested cave, there is no job   in sight and desperate people are waiting to take your spot.
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Egypt's antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
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They survived the collapse of civilizations and crossed the known world on camelback. Some lay buried for centuries in an Afghan nomad's sepulcher. Others were spirited out of a museum in modern-day Kabul under siege from looters and religious fanatics, then hidden in secret vaults under the pres...
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The silhouettes that roar through the Baghdad twilight are sleeker than the helicopters of an earlier time. The wind brings dust, not drenching monsoons. The river snaking seaward is called Tigris, not Mekong. And this war&#039;s not fought to the wail of Jimi Hendrix&#039;s guitar.
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Our heavy-browed competitors lasted 2,000 years longer than previously thought, a new cave find suggests&#151;though not everyone agrees on the dates.
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Almost 30 years after they were discovered by tomb raiders in Sicily, two ancient statues are to be returned.
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Iraqi archaeologists working in a city south of Baghdad unearthed more than 1,000 antiquities and delivered them Monday to the National Museum, which has struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion.
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An Israeli archaeologist said the site of an archaeological dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation Sunday.
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LAUDIUM, South Africa  - The sleepy South African town of Laudium seems a world away from the forbidding, mountainous frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan believed to be Osama bin Laden's hiding place.
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Decades of war have made mourning an all too familiar ritual. Nowadays, however, the grieving often must be done in secret
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U.S. tanks rolled closer Monday to a revered Shiite shrine in Najaf where militants are hiding as explosions shook the cemetery in the holy city.
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They didn't unearth any Indian relics when they excavated Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway this summer in preparation for the biggest repaving job in NASCAR history. But few veteran racers would have blanched if they had, having heard rumors for decades that the track carries a curse because it was...
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The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world &#151; until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea.
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An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea, but Cyprus' chief government archaeologist was skeptical.