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    The Etruscans are a very mysterious group of people, especially considering the fact that there writing system is so cryptic. So after 21 years, when Dr. Gregory Warden found an Etruscan stone with the longest Etruscan inscription on it, it seemed like a miracle. The stone was found underneath a temple in the site of Poggio Colla. This site was home to a small town, with the vocal point being a temple on the top of the hill. This rock was found in the foundation of the temple, where the podium most

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    The Titanic If you are from the U.S then you have probably ran across the movie “The Titanic”. One of the most dynamic and thrilling movies that involves a romantic disaster of two passengers, featuring leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet as Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater. The main plot of the story portrays jack and rose meeting each other in the Titanic aka “the ship of dreams” and falling madly in love with each other. Unfortunately the ship hits a iceberg and sinks to sea leaving many passengers

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    Jewels of The Nile: History of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Over thousands of years, jewelry has been worn by many people. Whether to show beauty, wealth or belief there is no era that can compare to the jewels of Ancient Egypt. At the beginning of the kingdom, precious stones and metals were discovered and worn like never seen before. Unfortunately, the remaining Egyptian jewelry that is displayed in Museums today is only a small fraction of what actually existed due to grave robbers. Questions

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    Throughout history there has always been questions that have been difficult to answer when pertaining to the human species. Where do humans come from? How have they become so advanced, when compared to that of similar species? Many have sought to find out the answer, and have found some clues that can be quite interesting. The best way to answer these questions is through the idea of evolution. Evolution, from a biological perspective, is the belief that changes within species takes place

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    Classifying Ancient Asia

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    Asian archaeology has distinct variety of hominid and hominoid from the Pleistocene, unusual subsistence adaptations from the Holocene, and simple complex polities. Carl Sauer, an American geographer, was one of the first scholars to note Asia as a source for the genesis of agriculture: some of the earliest domesticated plants were found in Asia. The earliest pottery also appeared more than 12,000 years ago Jomon huntergatherers in Japan . Yet Asia’s uniqueness does not make it incomparable to developments

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    Rover Pyramids

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    On Mars Just One Mile From NASA Rover! NASA Ignores Them', ufosightingsdaily.com made the astounding charge. Scott C Waring, the site's manager, was remarking on a video about the supposed disclosure, made by YouTube paranormal channel Martian Archeology. The channel guaranteed to get the pictures after an affirmed battle with the US space organization. It wrote in a special ad spot for the video: "After some

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    Book Of Ruth Analysis

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    Naomi, God can call us back and bring forth His glory through our Journeys, we can visually perceive when Ruth and Naomi Go back to Bethlehem the fields are plenty and Ruth and Naomi find favor in the sight of Boaz. . http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-judges-timeline-chronology-othneil-ehud-ruth-1350-1203bc.jpg genre: Genre: Literary ““Literature is first identifiable by its subject matter. The subject of literature is human experience. With enough vivid details the reader can relive

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    Historical Discrepancies in Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark was a fictional film that involved Indiana Jones’ search for the Ark of the Covenant and his struggle against the German Nazis. Along with the Nazis, he fought against one of his personal enemies, Dr. Belloq. The film took place in 1936, three years before the beginning of World War II. This movie used the Nazi search for religious artifacts and created a mission, and an enemy, for Indiana Jones. Raiders of the Lost Ark contained

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    Pompeii

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    in was rising. The ash buried the city and left it frozen as it was on that fateful day for nearly 1,700 years. As Interactive Archeology said, “Survivors of the eruption must have decided

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    In the science of archeology there are four goals that an archaeologist attempts to discover about an artifact, group of people, or a certain culture. These goals of archeology are: to describe the thing, place, and time, determine the function to recreate past behavior, determine how and why cultures change, and the cultural meaning behind objects. Archeology has evolved over time to better support those who are trying to accomplish these main goals; they range from improvements in the global positioning

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