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  The History Blog » Blog Archive » Diplomat tries to leave Iran with 6 tons of antiquties

  He actually had the gonads to describe them as “personal effects” in his customs declaration, banking on his diplomatic immunity to ship them out of the country without setting off alarms. Unfortunately for Argentinean embassy functionary Sebastian Zavalla, security noticed discrepancies between ...

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  Findings - A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ - NYTimes.com

  A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera , speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not ...

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  New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.com

  New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...

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  Researcher: Text proves Shroud of Turin real | CapeCodOnline.com

  Researcher: Text proves Shroud of Turin real A A ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME - A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew ...

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  Wrecked

  Last week, the New York Post reported that “a charred bottle of beer that survived the explosion of the Hindenburg will be auctioned off this month for an estimated $7,500.” The single bottle of Löwenbräu was recovered from the airship disaster by a New Jersey fireman. Much of its original ...

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