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Features January 1, 2011
Undiscovery of the Year - Clovis Comet
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Features January 1, 2011
The Tomb of Hecatomnus - Milas, Turkey
Turkish authorities have arrested looters who are suspected of tunneling their way into one of antiquity's most intriguing tombs. The looters reached the underground chamber, which lies below a temple to Zeus near the town of Milas, by digging in from a nearby house and an adjacent barn.
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Features January 1, 2011
Child Burials - Carthage, Tunisia
A team led by University of Pittsburgh physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz has refuted the long-held claim that the Carthaginians carried out large-scale child sacrifice from the eighth to second centuries B.C.
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Features January 1, 2011
Allianoi - Turkey
A reservoir created by a new hydroelectric dam in western Turkey will soon permanently flood the ruins of the Roman-era bath complex of Allianoi.
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Features January 1, 2011
Underwater Shipwrecks - Massachusetts Bay
Historic shipwrecks all over the world are severely damaged by bottom trawling, a fishing method that involves hauling huge nets across the ocean floor.
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Features January 1, 2011
Ashur - Iraq
A section of the Assyrian capital of Ashur in central Iraq is gradually eroding into the Tigris River.
