A photographic tour of Maya archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. Includes interactive maps, quotations from explorers and scholars, and a bibliography.
The EIF promotes conservation and provides extensive information on contemporary and historic Easter Island for travelers and professionals. Contains text, photos, maps, and charts, history, and archeology.
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Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded as a commercial center in West Africa nine hundred years ago. Dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, the ancient manuscripts presented in this e...
www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/mali-exhibit.html
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The glittering "grills" of some hip-hop stars aren't exactly unprecedented. Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago, a new study says.
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Two Roman stone sarcophagi have been uncovered at a dig on the site of a former chapel and office buildings. The discovery of the 1,800-year-old sandstone coffins in Newcastle city centre are the first such find - and arguably the...
www.24dash.com/news/communities/2008-08-14-Archaeologists-uncover-1-800-year-old-Roman-coffins-in-Newcastle-city-centre
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The Ancient Indus Valley: Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Lothal and more in 1,000 multimedia pages by the world's leading scholars of ancient India and Pakistan