English Heritage to help in salvage work at Windsor

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The English Heritage Rescue Archaeology Unit is to send a team of nine to sort through the salvaged works of art at Windsor Castle. Debris will be sorted to find fragments of woodwork, metalwork and moulded plaster from which replicas can be made. Conservators will be able to renovate many items including chandeliers and carpets. St George's Hall, built in the 1820's, and the grand Reception Room in the Cornwall Tower, dating from the 12th century, were the worst damaged rooms.

Finance, England, Fires, English Heritage, Salvage, Marine salvage, Windsor Castle, Salvage archaeology

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Ancient voyage of discovery

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Australian-style Aborigines could have been the first to discover America, rather than Columbus or the Vikings, according to Dr Walter Neves of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He has undertaken research which seems to prove that Australoid colonists were the first Americans, having found a number of Aboriginal skulls in South America. He believes that there was once a huge aboriginal homeland which covered most of East and South-east Asia.

Australian aborigines, Aboriginal Australians

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Secret face of China's lost civilisation

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Details are beginning to emerge of the discovery by archaeologists working at Sanxingdui, in China's Sichuan province, of an ancient culture which is around 3,500 years old. It seems to be distantly connected with either the Tibeto-Burman tribes or the Austronesian peoples, rather than with mainstream Chinese culture. Archaeologists have found more than 1,000 jade and bronze items in sacrificial pits. These include very strange sculptures.

China, Civilization, Ancient, Ancient civilization

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