This Week in History News (Mar 8-12, 2010)
Posted in: A Blog About History
The following are all the articles on A Blog About History for the week of March 8-12, 2010.
- Robin Hood stole from the rich to lend to the poor?
- Unexploded WWII bomb found in Southampton
- Ice Age excavation urged for Vero Beach, Florida
- 1641 Irish massacre eye-witness accounts examined
- 150,000-year-old settlement found in Northern Iraq
- Face of 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy reconstructed
- 7 (thankfully) extinct giant versions of modern animals
- Japan confirms secret Cold War-era pacts with US
- Indonesian villages cash in on “hobbit” craze
- 18th century Devon canal to be restored
- Two privies excavated in Nova Scotia
- 14th century frescoes brought to life with ultraviolet light
- Ancient double burials studied in Mexico
- Dozens of shipwrecks found by Baltic Sea pipeline firm
- Extinct bird DNA extracted from eggshell
- Mayan fountain unearthed in Palenque
- Italy’s top artist: Caravaggio
- Identified: The biblical city of Neta’im
- The oldest, most southerly human habitation in the world
- Sea dog from the Mary Rose goes on display
- Gate to terracotta army tomb found
- Buddhist-era site found in Pakistan
- Excavation set to begin on Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home
- Artisans tapped to help solve mystery of ancient carvings
- Primitive tools found in Cuba
- Oliver Cromwell military camp found in Scotland
- Thracian Starosel Tomb dated to the 4th century BC
- Egypt to restore historical synagogues
- Mass graves of Nazi victims found in Austria
- Roman and Byzantine graveyards found near Damascus
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