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Vets process work site artifacts (1:33 p.m. 1/26/10)

Published: January 26, 2010
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By Cheryl Wittenauer AP Writer St. Louis — U.S. military veterans are sorting through a massive government archaeological collection that has been neglected for decades, with the hope of archiving the stone tools, arrows and American Indian beads that were found beneath major public works projects. The collection dates to the 1930s, when the U.S. [...]

Explorers dig up the Saudi past — at last

Published: September 4, 2009
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Donna Abu-Nasr AP Writer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as “the rose-red city, ‘half as old as time,’” and which provided the climactic backdrop for “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” But far fewer know Madain Saleh, a similarly [...]