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		<title>The Mirror of Health: Discovering Medicine in the Golden Age of Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare collection of Islamic medical manuscripts has gone on display for the first time, illuminating medical traditions that developed in the Golden Age of Islamic culture, between the 9th and 17th centuries AD. Based at the Royal College of Physicians in London, and curated by Professor Peter E Pormann from The University of Manchester, The mirror [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgammel Ram reveals all</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detailed analysis of a 2,000-year-old bronze warship ram has shed new light on how the object was created and used. Discovered by British divers off the coast of Tobruk, Libya, in 1964, the Belgammel Ram weighs 20kg (44lb) and would have been part of a small Greek or Roman warship called a tesseraria. The 65cm (2&#8217;2&#8243;) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibalism at Jamestown colony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ongoing excavations at Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in America, have revealed grisly evidence that within months of establishing the outpost, its desperate inhabitants had resorted to dismembering and eating a child. Contemporary written sources from Jamestown refer to the winter of 1609-1610 as the &#8216;Starving Time&#8217;, a devastating period when around 80% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grave discovery: first intact Neolithic burial chamber north of the Alps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excavations in Switzerland have revealed the first intact Neolithic burial chamber north of the Alps. The dolmen, at Oberbipp in the Canton of Bern, contains the remains of at least 28 individuals dating to about 5,000 years ago. Marianne Ramstein, director of excavations, explained that examples of such burial chambers are rare, most are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmon cooking in the Jomon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of some of the world&#8217;s earliest pots has revealed that Ice Age hunter-gatherers enjoyed a fish supper. An international team of researchers, led by the University of York, examined charred food residues inside 101 pots made by the Jomon hunter-gatherer culture of Japan. Dating back up to 15,000 years, they represent the earliest direct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oetzi the Iceman had bad teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research on the remains of &#8216;Oetzi&#8217;, the world&#8217;s oldest wet mummy, has revealed that his violent death was not the only misfortune suffered by the Iceman &#8211; he also had terrible teeth. According to a study led by researchers from the University of Zurich&#8217;s Centre for Evolutionary Medicine, Oetzi&#8217;s gritty diet had wreaked havoc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1950s time capsule found at Cold War reactor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental workers have made an unexpected discovery while preparing a building on the site of Hanford&#8217;s Cold War-era nuclear reactor in Washington for demolition: a time capsule from the 1950s. In a building close to the site&#8217;s D reactor &#8211; a relic of the Manhattan Project, involved in the development of the Atomic bomb &#8211; the team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple and Tomb: prehistoric Malta, 3600-2500 BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First settled in the late 6th millennium BC, between 3600-2500 BC the Maltese archipelago flourished into an astonishingly rich prehistoric culture, producing a wealth of stylised human figures unparalleled by contemporary peoples, as well as the oldest surviving free-standing stone buildings in the world. Constructed from massive slabs of limestone some 4m high, weighing up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toeing the line: the world&#8217;s oldest prosthetics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the importance that the Ancient Egyptians placed on entering the afterlife intact, it is unsurprising that replacement body parts have been found in tombs. Whether these were used in life, or had a purely cosmetic purpose, has long been the subject of debate, however. Now an experimental archaeology project at the University of Manchester’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s church-shaped lantern: shedding light on the past</title>
		<link>http://www.world-archaeology.com/news/israels-church-shaped-lantern-shedding-light-on-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carly Hilts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeological work ahead of the construction of an events garden at Hamei Yoav, Israel, has uncovered an unusual church-shaped lantern, as well as a 1,500-year-old wine press. The rare artefact, comprising a ceramic model of a church decorated with cross-shaped &#8216;windows&#8217; and a sloping roof, was found by the Israel Antiquities Authority during the investigation of [...]]]></description>
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