Cemetery of statues: a shipment of bronze body parts surfaces in the Adriatic

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Italy's Technical Service for Underwater Archeology has recovered a monumental trove of more than 1,000 bronze statues from the Adriatic. The site was found by Luigi Robusto while sport diving. The statues date from the fourth century BC through the third AD, and appear to have been a cargo of plunder or scrap. The discovery, called by Italian archeologists one of the greatest underwater discoveries ever, vastly increases the number of large classical bronzes known.

Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Underwater archaeology, Bronzes, Ancient, Sculpture, Roman, Ancient bronzes, Roman sculpture

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Arabian time capsule; an undisturbed trove of relics reveals the trading patterns of a Bronze Age society

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A trove of 4,000-year-old artifacts in a group burial at Tell Abraq in the United Arab Emirates is described. Archaeologists discovered this circular stone tomb of a type commonly used for group burials in the Early Bronze Age (2500-2000BC) in the region.Light was shed on the culture of the ancient Magan, connected to a trade network linking Mesopotama with the Indus Valley.

United Arab Emirates, Prehistoric peoples, Excavations (Archaeology)

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Medieval DNA modern medicine: will a cemetery excavation establish a link between the Black Death and resistance to AIDS?

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A rare discovery of DNA from the remains of an aristocratic boy who died from the Black Death offers hope to the revelation of the genetic history of HIV resistance. The boy's remains were found in buried in front of a medieval church altar in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Netherlands, Science & research, Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing, Drugs, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Research, Causes of, History, DNA, Discovery and exploration, Casualties, HIV antibodies, Cover story, Black death, Black Death, ca. 1347-1400, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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