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    May 19, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  1. With apartments gone, historians wonder what is below Harbor Square

    HAMPTON — The derelict buildings, playing children and crime associated with the property's seedy visitors are long gone from the former Harbor Square site downtown.
    HAMPTON — The derelict buildings, playing children and crime associated with the property's seedy visitors are long gone from the former Harbor Square site downtown. But as the city plans to redevelop the 17.7-acre tract — and contractors...

    Tags: Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Housing Authority, Wars and Interventions, College of William and Mary

    2. May 18, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  2. Bill would protect water-authority lands from artifact looters

    Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught.
    Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught. But a loophole in state law meant that looters didn't face consequences for their thievery on Lake County Water...

    Tags: Ocala National Forest, Wildlife, Alan Hays, Environmental Issues, Rick Scott

    3. May 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

    When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black market in stolen antiquities.
    When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...

    Tags: Arts, Justice System, Theft, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice

    4. May 16, 2013 |Story| Imperial Valley Press Online

  4. Turbine blade plummets in Ocotillo

    OCOTILLO — A massive blade from one of the 112 wind turbines recently installed was found near a tower base Thursday, after plummeting onto the ground overnight, triggering safety concerns among officials and some residents.
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    OCOTILLO — A massive blade from one of the 112 wind turbines recently installed was found near a tower base Thursday, after plummeting onto the ground overnight, triggering safety concerns among officials and some residents. No injuries were...

    Tags: Energy, Environmental Issues, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Conservation, Arts and Culture

    5. May 23, 2013 |Story| Daily Press

  5. Exhibit explores Powhatan's village

    The first time Lynn Ripley reached down and coaxed a piece of broken pottery from the dirt at her newly purchased York River farm, she just trying to tidy up the grounds.
    The first time Lynn Ripley reached down and coaxed a piece of broken pottery from the dirt at her newly purchased York River farm, she just trying to tidy up the grounds.     But as the years passed, the Gloucester woman turned up so many arrowheads...

    Tags: Jamestown Settlement, Science and Technology, Human Interest, College of William and Mary, Arts and Culture

    6. May 8, 2013 |Story| Daily Press

  6. A lost Spanish mission on the York River

    When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia.
    When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia.     Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...

    Tags: Mexico City, Hampton Roads, College of William and Mary, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Naval Weapons Station Yorktown

    7. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Oaxaca temple complex hints at archaic Mexican state

    Much of what we know about past civilizations in Mexico comes from the writings of colonial Europeans -- Spanish conquerors and priests -- who arrived in the Americas in the 1500s. But archaeological evidence from recent excavations at a site called El Palenque in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, shows that temple precincts similar to the ones the Europeans encountered had existed in the region some 1,500 years earlier.
    Much of what we know about past civilizations in Mexico comes from the writings of colonial Europeans -- Spanish conquerors and priests -- who arrived in the Americas in the 1500s. But archaeological evidence from recent excavations at a site called El...

    Tags: Museum of Natural History, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Mexico

    8. Apr 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Ancient undersea stone structure was made by man; what was it?

    Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee.
    Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. Scientists don't know who built the structure, or why, but in a recent paper in the International...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Arts and Culture

    9. May 1, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  9. Cannibalism at Jamestown evidence unearthed

    Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during the Starving Time of 1609-10.
    Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during...

    Tags: Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Science and Technology, Hampton Roads, Anthropology

    10. May 2, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  10. New Jamestown exhibit explores colonist cannibalism

    Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger.
    Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger. She was already forgotten...

    Tags: Smithsonian Institution, Hampton Roads, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture

    11. Jan 31, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Petroglyphs stolen from sacred eastern Sierra site recovered

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    Petroglyph panels cut and chiseled off an eastern Sierra rock art site sacred to Native Americans have been recovered by federal investigators, U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials announced Thursday. The suspected thieves have not been identified and...
    12. Feb 14, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Mexico finds fire-god figure at top of Pyramid of the Sun

    MEXICO CITY -- Did the rulers of the ancient city of Teotihuacan dedicate their largest pyramid to the god of fire, the so-called old god with a signature beard and fire atop his head?
    MEXICO CITY -- Did the rulers of the ancient city of Teotihuacan dedicate their largest pyramid to the god of fire, the so-called old god with a signature beard and fire atop his head? Mexican archaeologists announced this week that a figure of the god,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Mexico

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