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March 2001 :

March 30 –

“China selects 100 top archaeological discoveries of 20th Century” –

People’s Daily (China)

March 28 –

“New Hominid Species Complicates Early Hominid Evolution” –

Archaeology.org (USA)

March 21 –

“3.5 million year-old skull unearthed in Kenya” –

New Scientist (UK)

March 21 –

“Find ‘turns evolutionary thinking on head'” –

IOL (South Africa)

March 21 –

“War robs Iraq of its history” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

March 19 –

“Ancient Rampart Discovered in East China” –

People’s Daily (China)

March 19 –

“Ancient tablets deciphered to enlighten the eastern world” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

March 19 –

“Earthlings, meet your parent: The 4 planets closest to the sun” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

March 18 –

“Antiques for sale must have history logbook” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

March 17 –

“Two asteroids become Irish rock legends” –

CNN (USA)

March 15 –

“New curbs on trade in stolen art works” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

March 15 –

“Skulls of the ancient Egyptians used to spot neurological illness” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

March 13 –

“U.N. seeks laws to halt cultural vandals” –

CNN (USA)

March 11 –

“Greece attacks British Museum over missing marble hand” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

March 11 –

“Archaeologist reportedly killed self to protest charges he faked findings” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

March 10 –

“Light-fingered visitor takes museum’s hand” –

Daily Telegraph (UK)

March 10 –

“Egypt contact Taliban for halting destruction of statues” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

March 09 –

“Important archaeological discovery in East China” –

People’s Daily (China)

March 08 –

“‘Quick’ demise for the dinosaurs” –

BBC News Online (UK)

March 08 –

“Earth’s magnetic field was intense in dinosaur age” –

CNN (USA)

March 06 –

“Encounter with the Moon stone” –

BBC News Online (UK)

March 05 –

“New archaeological find in Nanjing” –

People’s Daily (China)

March 03 –

“Japanese team discovers ancient Islamic inscriptions” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

March 02 –

“Rocks reveal amazing dino lights” –

BBC News Online (UK)

February 2001 :

February 28 –

“Fresh hope of life on Mars” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

February 26 –

“Dozens of well-preserved Mummies found in Xinjiang” –

People’s Daily (China)

February 26 –

“Dinosaur Behavior: The bite of a Jurassic killer” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

February 26 –

“Ancient pilgrims road discovered in North Sinai” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

February 24 –

“Pakistan hits dinosaur fossil jackpot” –

IOL (South Africa)

February 24 –

“Earth’s mother of all extinctions” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

February 23 –

“Asteroid ‘destroyed life 250m years ago'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

February 23 –

“Watch is on for doomsday asteroids, comets” –

IOL (South Africa)

February 22 –

“‘Two asteroids, not one, caused extinctions'” –

IOL (South Africa)

February 22 –

“New Evidence Ties Mass Extinction to Massive Collision” –

National Geographic News (USA)

February 22 –

“Ancient Mayan cities looted” –

BBC News Online (UK)

February 21 –

“Is anybody out there? Probably, say scientists” –

The Independent (UK)

February 20 –

“Two-million-year-old horse fossils found in Central China” –

People’s Daily (China)

February 20 –

“Key life ingredients found in dust and gas around distant stars” –

The Independent (UK)

February 16 –

“Egyptian God’s Tomb Unearthed” –

ABC News (USA)

February 15 –

“Patagonian fossil treasure trove uncovered” –

New Scientist (UK)

February 14 –

“‘Jurassic Park’ unearthed in Patagonia” –

IOL (South Africa)

February 13 –

“Space probe makes history by landing on asteroid” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

February 13 –

“Surface photo from the asteroid Eros” –

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

February 10 –

“‘Material vestiges of ancient civilizations’ found in the suburbs of Moscow” –

Pravda (Russia)

February 09 –

“Archaeologists unearth 2,000-year-old blast furnace” –

People’s Daily (China)

February 09 –

“One giant peep for mankind” –

The Independent (UK)

February 09 –

“Confucian cultural relics safe in China “ –

People’s Daily (China)

February 07 –

“Extinct bird in ‘ground breaker'” –

BBC News Online (UK)

February 06 –

“Boffins baffled by rare ‘camel’ creature” –

IOL (South Africa)

February 04 –

“Pottery dreams across 10,000 years” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

February 01 –

“Ancient Ptolemaic bath unearthed in north Sinai” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 2001 :

January 31 –

“World’s earliest woodworking?” –

Archaeology.org (USA)

January 30 –

“Rock art found in a Wisconsin ‘Cave of Wonders'” –

Archaeology.org (USA)

January 30 –

“15 stone-head sculptures stolen from Cyrene, Libya” –

Archaeology.org (USA)

January 28 –

“Faked digs put archaeologists on defensive” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

January 27 –

“Ancient animal fossils discovered in South China” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 25 –

“Space ‘weather’ close-up” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 25 –

“Inside the city of the black tiger” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 24 –

“Polar team back with meteorite haul” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

January 22 –

“Artemis treasures on European tour” –

NTV/MSNBC (Turkey)

January 19 –

“400-million-year-old sea creature fossils discovered in North China” –

People’s Daily (China)

January 18 –

“Valley of golden mummies, unearthed” –

Arabic News (Egypt)

January 09 –

“Fossil challenge to Africa theory” –

BBC News Online (UK)

January 07 –

“Buried ice could hold ancient secrets” –

USA Today (USA)

January 05 –

“Coelacanth boffins want US submersible” –

IOL (South Africa)

January 05 –

“The Case of the Missing Mars Water” –

Science@NASA (USA)

January 01 –

“Life? Martian meteorite keeps its cool” –

The Japan Times (Japan)

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