August 10, 2011
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Short little video from our friends at the Royal Ontario Museum with Chris Smith (of BSR fame) narrating an overview of various aspects of Roman history:
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The beginning of a piece in Dominican Today: The feat of Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, which has circled the globe with her project “In search of Cleopatra’s tomb,” continues attracting the attention of the world’s scientific community. And that’s the reason the scientist of Chinese origin Ng Tze-Chuen, known for his successful projects at NASA…
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Image via Wikipedia From RIA Novosti: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled to the Taman Peninsula on Wednesday to perform yet another of his trademark adventure activities and scuba dive at a site known as the Russian Atlantis. Putin is making the dive to publicize archeological restoration work on the submerged part of the ancient…
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In case you didn’t hear about it on Sunday … here’s the version from Adnkronos: A fake bomb caused police to evacuate hundreds of tourists on Sunday from the Colosseum, Rome’s most famous monument. The alarm was raised by a tourist who spotted the wires emerging from a metal can and thought they were part…
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Probably should have saved the Cleopatra one for today (the anniversary of her death) and presented these ones yesterday: King Midas’ Body Found (repeated a number of times throughout WWN’s history) Jesus’ Cross Found in Holy Land Gladiator’s Skull Found in Colosseum Meet the Monkey Who Ruled Rome For a Day (a mummy!) Hercules’ Gym…
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