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July 31 – “Galaxy ‘may cause ice ages'” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 31 – “Elephant fossil unearthed in SW China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 31 – “Death-trap cave reveals fossil giants” – New Scientist (UK)
July 31 – “Asteroid flyby of Earth August 18” – Space Daily (USA)
July 31 – “2,000-year-old 6ft 6ins warrior giant discovered in Kazakhstan” – Ananova (UK)
July 31 – “Astronomers say asteroid will miss the Earth” – New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
July 31 – “60m-year-old meteor crater mapped in North Sea” – Ananova (UK)
July 31 – “Lake ‘Monster’ Jumps Back to Sight in Northeast China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 31 – “Ancient Stonehenge to be returned to tranquility” – ABC News (USA)
July 31 – “Monster fossils found” – The Bangkok Post (Thailand)
July 31 – “UK’s first impact crater discovered” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 31 – “Found: Fossils of giant beasts in Aussie caves” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 30 – “Australia unearths fossilised giants” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 30 – “Nullarbor fossil discoveries shed light on past” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 30 – “The Great Wall of China – 1/3 has gone, 1/3 badly ruined” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 30 – “Columbus map still a puzzle” – Ananova (UK)
July 30 – “Qinghai Section, Major Trunk of Ancient Silk Road” – People’s Daily (China)
July 30 – “Fresh doubt over America map” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 30 – “Mystery of Dunhuang Grottoes unveiled” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 30 – “Historic find of fossil treasures” – The West Australian (Australia)
July 30 – “Giant kangaroo remains found in Australia” – Ananova (UK)
July 29 – “More oracle bones unearthed in central China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 29 – “Ancient city unearthed” – News.com (Australia)
July 29 – “Stars and planets August 2002: Skywatchers Guide” – The Independent (UK)
July 29 – “Oldest Royal administrative building unearthed near Sphinx” – Arabic News (Egypt)
July 29 – “More mammoth finds in Colorado” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 29 – “Asteroid to miss – this time around” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 29 – “More Oracle Bones Unearthed in Central China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 29 – “Scientists determine age of first New World map” – EurekAlert (USA)
July 29 – “Troubled Tyre sees hatching of preservation plan” – Daily Star (Lebanon)
July 29 – “Building blocks of life found in deep space” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 29 – “Prehistoric Chinese city brought to light” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 28 – “Ancient Buddhist city uncovered in Afghanistan” – Ananova (UK)
July 28 – “Oldest bakery found south of the Sphinx at Giza” – UPI (USA)
July 28 – “Oldest settlement used by pyramids builders discovered” – Times of India (India)
July 28 – “Pre-Columbian mausoleum discovered in Mexico” – The News Mexico (Mexico)
July 28 – “Bring back Queen Nefertiti, Rosetta stone” – State Information Service (Egypt)
July 28 – “Skywatchers should be alert for ‘auroras’ Sunday night” – SpaceWeather.com (USA)
July 28 – “China intensifies protection of ancient Tibetan buildings” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 27 – “Pyramid settlement unearthed” – News.com (Australia)
July 27 – “”El Dorado” discovered in Peruvian Amazon, explorers claim” – Northern Light/EFE (Spain)
July 27 – “Egyptian mission in Saqqara unearths two New Kingdom tombs” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 27 – “Long-tailed, seed-eating bird fossil discovered in Liaoning” – People’s Daily (China)
July 27 – “Laser could destroy asteroid: Russian scientist” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 27 – “1000-year-old street in Lhasa retains original look” – People’s Daily (China)
July 27 – “Grant to Stonehenge unlikely to be panacea” – The Guardian (UK)
July 26 – “Egypt rebuilds ancient tomb” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 26 – “Astronomers warn of possible hit by new-found asteroid” – Christian Science Monitor (USA)
July 26 – “Search on for more Dead Sea Scrolls” – Jerusalem Post (Israel)
July 26 – “Volcano erupts in eastern DRC” – IOL (South Africa)
July 26 – “China’s Great Wall to be protected by specific law” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 26 – “Astronomers see comet break-up” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 26 – “Slim chance of asteroid collision with Earth in 2019” – People’s Daily (China)
July 26 – “Iron Age settlement poses sinister mystery” – The Guardian (UK)
July 26 – “Caveat Impactor – new data on asteroid 2002 NT7” – NASA Science News (USA)
July 26 – “Huge ancient pottery drum unearthed” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 25 – “Archaeologists excavate Iron Age ‘ghost’ village” – Ananova (UK)
July 25 – “Meteorite bombardment: Under fire” – Nature (UK)
July 25 – “Astronomers monitor asteroid that could pose threat to Earth” – Turkish Daily News (Turkey)
July 25 – “Archaeologists uncover 3700-year-old ‘magical’ birth brick in Egypt” – EurekAlert (USA)
July 25 – “Space weather experts meet in Adelaide” – ABC News in Science (Australia)
July 25 – “Green light for Red Planet” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 25 – “Canals of an ancient culture” – International Herald Tribune (USA)
July 25 – “Book raises spectre of ghost comets coming soon” – New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
July 25 – “Asteroid to pass Earth in mid-August” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 25 – “Ancient corpse discovered in downtown Guangzhou” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 25 – “Early bird ate seeds – gut contents of new-found fossil reveal” – Nature (UK)
July 25 – “Asteroid books date with Earth in 17 years” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 24 – “Nasa dismisses asteroid collision claim” – The Guardian (UK)
July 24 – “Fossil shows bird’s last meal – images” – CNN.com (USA)
July 24 – “Astronomers tracking new near-Earth asteroid” – New Scientist (UK)
July 24 – “Dinosaur skeleton reconstruction in northeast China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 24 – “Asteroid on long-term collision course” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 24 – “Earth’s early battering revealed” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 24 – “Well-preserved 2,000-year-old body of woman discovered in China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 24 – “Asteroid 2002 NT7 might hit Earth” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 24 – “Giant asteroid approaching to the Earth” – Pravda (Russia)
July 24 – “Mars lander takes shape” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 24 – “Park sends ancient shields to Navajo Tribe” – San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
July 23 – “China Invests Heavily in Protecting Tibet’s Relics” – People’s Daily (China)
July 23 – “Archaeologists find military garrison of ancient Bulgars in Tatarstan” – Pravda (Russia)
July 23 – “Ancient pictorial language computerised” – Ananova (UK)
July 23 – “Ancient tomb of a couple unearthed” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 23 – “Dust in ‘Earth’s attic’ could be key to early life” – Ananova (UK)
July 23 – “Scientists discover dinosaur ‘missing link'” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 23 – “Network of waterways traced to ancient Florida culture” – New York Times (USA)
July 23 – “Fossil of flying ‘Dinosaur’ found in Northeast China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 23 – “Four accused of stealing Nasa moon rocks” – Ananova (UK)
July 23 – “Californian cave paintings offer glimpse of past” – ABC News (USA)
July 22 – “Dusty mounds hold clues to vanished Afghan past” – Times of India (India)
July 22 – “Key to an ancient tongue – Sumerian dictionary ready by 2004?” – Philadelphia Inquirer (USA)
July 22 – “Botanists probe medieval medicine” – Nature (UK)
July 22 – “Fossil of flying “dinosaur” found in China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 22 – “Did globalization touch ancient civilizations?” – Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
July 22 – “Mile-wide dent in Earth sparks debate” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 22 – “‘Arabian peninsula linked Asia, Africa'” – Gulf News (Dubai)
July 22 – “Treasures to be searched for on the bottom of Issyk Kul lake” – Pravda (Russia)
July 22 – “2,000-year-old official records found in Hunan” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 21 – “Scientists Debate Mystery Crater” – Space.com (USA)
July 21 – “Afghanistan starts fight against cultural heritage smuggling” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 21 – “Archaeologists find thousands of 2,000-year-old files” – Ananova (UK)
July 21 – “‘Dinosaur Hunt’ in the Arctic” – VOA News (USA)
July 21 – “Is it an impact crater or just a dent?” – CNN.com (UK)
July 21 – “China succeeds in computerizing 3,000-year-old script” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 20 – “Beijing gets tough over Great Wall” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 20 – “The tools of ancient medicine” – Kathimerini (Greece)
July 20 – “Italy vows to return Ethiopia’s obelisk” – Washington Post (USA) July 20 – “Scientists uncover crested pterosaur” – ABC News Online( Australia) July 19 – “Construction, Tourism Threaten Historical Relics in China” – People’s Daily (China) July 19 – “Underground ancient city found in Afghanistan” – The Frontier Post (Pakistan) July 19 – “Gang caught with 200,000 artefacts” – The Guardian (UK) July 19 – “Skywatchers! – be alert for possible auroras Friday & Saturday” – SpaceWeather.com (USA) July 19 – “Archaeological findings shed light on Qin Dynasty” – People’s Daily (China) July 19 – “Ancient alphabet enters cyber age” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 19 – “Weird fossilised flying reptile ‘a vision of hell'” – New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) July 19 – “Scientists ecstatic over mammoth find” – Ananova (UK) July 19 – “Volcanos a bigger threat than comets” – ABC News Online (Australia) July 19 – “Alkalescent fluid keeps 2,000-year-old corpse intact” – People’s Daily (China)
July 19 – “Microphones to Detect Near Earth Objects” – NEO Information Centre (UK) July 19 – “Pterosaurs ate on the fly” – ABC News in Science (Australia) July 18 – “Pterosaur lizard would ‘skim for its supper'” – Ananova (UK) July 18 – “The Volcano That May Destroy Mankind – Victory News (Indonesia) July 18 – “Archaeological treasures recovered – plundered from sites across Spain” – CBS News (USA) July 18 – “World marks 1000-year-old epic poem ‘King Gesser'” – XinhuaNet (China) July 18 – “Alaskan glaciers melting faster” – BBC News Online (UK) July 18 – “Researchers find fossil of unknown flying reptile” – Times of India (India) July 18 – “Kofun period mansion ruins unearthed in Gunma Prefecture” – Daily Yomiuri (Japan) July 18 – “Project under way to catalogue historical Egyptian sites” – State Information Service (Egypt) July 18 – “Pterosaur skull suggests sex and violence” – New Scientist (UK) July 18 – “2,600 years of chocolate” – Nature (UK) July 18 – “Thousands of artefacts found in Melbourne dig” – ABC News Online (Australia) July 17 – “Remains of Roman town threatened by plough” – The Independent (UK) July 17 – “Saving the Great Wall from Itself” – People’s Daily (China) July 17 – “Access to ancient mounds might be improved” – The Columbus Dispatch (USA) July 17 – “Builders unearth ‘50,000-year-old mammoth tusk'” – Ananova (UK) July 17 – “Chocoholics have a 2,600-year history” – Times of India (India) July 17 – “Group hopes to protect Great Wall” – The Guardian (UK) July 17 – “Ancient sex gadgets unearthed in northwest China” – XinhuaNet (China) July 17 – “Dino-birds come to UK” – BBC News Online (UK) July 17 – “Microphones tell asteroids from A-bombs” – Nature (UK) July 17 – “British Museum to meet Elgin marbles lobby group” – ABC News Online (Australia) July 16 – “Inuit ancient history finds a home on the web” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 16 – “China Customs uncovers dinosaur skeleton smuggling” – People’s Daily (China)
July 16 – “Giant erupting sunspot stretches fifteen Earth-diameters” – SpaceWeather.com (USA)
July 16 – “Site offers mammoth discovery – construction stalls as museum digs” – Denver Post (USA)
July 16 – “Most Ohio mounds have little protection” – The Columbus Dispatch (USA)
July 16 – “Origins of domestic horse revealed” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 16 – “DNA hints at origins of domestic horses” – Scientific American (USA)
July 16 – “Warning of heritage damage by rush to build Elgin Marbles museum” – Ananova (UK)
July 15 – “Comets are Diamond-Free” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 15 – “Asteroid explosions may be confused with nuclear attack: scientists” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 15 – “Drills and axes ravage ancient Greek site” – The Guardian (UK) July 15 – “Ancient Female Corpse Discovered Intact in Eastern China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 15 – “Panel talks of returning Native American artifacts” – Democrat & Chronicle (USA)
July 15 – “Could Asteroids Trigger a War?” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 15 – “London symposium to discuss new antiquities museum” – State Information Service (Egypt)
July 15 – “Asteroid ‘could spark a nuclear war'” – The Herald (Scotland)
July 15 – “2,000-year-old corpse found intact in mystery fluid” – The Straits Times (Singapore)
July 15 – “Of dragons and other matters” – CCNet Post #8 (UK)
July 14 – “Mysterious giant human remains found in Fiji” – Times of India (India)
July 14 – “Asteroids ‘could trigger nuclear war'” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 14 – “Ancient female corpse discovered intact” – China Daily (China)
July 14 – “Body of 2,000-year-old woman found in China” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 13 – “Bigger Not Better for Asteroids” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 13 – “The fabled city of St Menas threatened by water seepage” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 13 – “Turkey to conduct new excavations in Troy” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 13 – “Archaeologists to excavate Gyrman settlement in Amur region” – Pravda (Russia)
July 13 – “Doubts over discovery of oldest human skull” – Times of India (India)
July 13 – “Cultural relics face submersion in central China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 12 – “Man or gorilla? Scientist questions skull theory” – Times of India (India)
July 12 – “Kuiper Belt Probe Endorsed” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 12 – “Anthropology: Seven-million-year-old missing link found” – Pravda (Russia)
July 12 – “Roman-era marble statues dug up in Thessaloniki” – Athens News (Greece)
July 12 – “Toumaï, face of the deep” – Nature (UK)
July 12 – “Museum’s Egyptian mummy to go home” – National Geographic News (USA)
July 12 – “Prehistoric sites at Atapuerca incorporate sophisticated technology” – AlphaGalileo (UK)
July 12 – “Skull find sparks controversy” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 12 – “Out of Africa emerges humans’ earliest ancestor” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 12 – “Panel Recommends Extended NEO Search” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 11 – “Ancestors’ 7 million years old” – News.com (Australia)
July 11 – “Late Period town comes to light” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 11 – “New Deep Space Network Dish” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 11 – “Egyptians: Museum artifact stolen” – ABC News (USA)
July 11 – “Study on China’s origins targets two provinces” – People’s Daily (China)
July 11 – “Out of Africa emerges humans’ earliest ancestor” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 11 – “The desert yields ruins of an ancient Egyptian port” – International Herald Tribune (USA)
July 11 – “Mummy’s the word as ancient city unwraps more in Peru” – Independent Online (South Africa)
July 11 – “Astronomers discover 101st planet” – ABC News in Science (Australia)
July 10 – “Hunt for potentially deadly dsteroids underfunded, panel says” – Space.com (USA)
July 10 – “Scientists delight in ancient skull find” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 10 – “Oldest hominid skull shakes human family tree” – New Scientist (UK)
July 10 – “Skull may shift evolution theories” – Deseret News (USA)
July 10 – “Old Nicosia to get ancient monument status “ – Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
July 10 – “Skull fossil from Chad forces rethinking of human origins” – National Geographic News (USA)
July 09 – “Scientists find ‘forgotten’ treasures on museum shelf” – Ananova (UK)
July 09 – “Silicon Valley of Bronze Age unearthed near Dead Sea” – San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
July 09 – “US museum agrees mummy’s return” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 09 – “Footprints reveal Viking life” – Discovery Channel News (USA)
July 09 – “God Amon’s beekeepers supervisor tomb unearthed” – State Information Service (Egypt)
July 08 – “Ancient rock shows earliest evidence of continental drift” – Ananova (UK)
July 08 – “Avoiding the impact” – Scientific American (USA)
July 08 – “Glass from the depths of time” – Kathimerini (Greece)
July 08 – “Fireball May Have Caused Plane Alert” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 08 – “Utah antiquities at risk?” – Deseret News (USA)
July 08 – “Ancient rock points to life’s origin” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 08 – “On alert for asteroids” – St Petersburg Times (USA)
July 08 – “Mummified head, and tablet to return to Egypt” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 08 – “Egypt reclaims stolen antiquities” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 07 – “Archeologists unearth a cluster of village sites dating back 3,000 years” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 07 – “Bone probe shows mummy was a daddy” – Independent Online (South Africa)
July 07 – “Biblical researcher says he’s discovered exact location of Noah’s Ark” – The News Tribune (USA)
July 07 – “World’s longest epic sung for thousand years” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 07 – “Truth about Pyramids built from ground up” – The Columbus Dispatch (USA)
July 07 – “Caddo Indian tribe’s graves being plundered for pottery” – Houston Chronicle (USA)
July 07 – “Carved stone characters of world’s longest epic discovered in SW China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 06 – “Meteor may have alarmed Israeli pilot” – CNN.com (USA)
July 06 – “Clues to missing Mahabalipuram pagodas found” – Times of India (India)
July 06 – “Heaviest Ammonia in Space” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 06 – “Ancient Kifissia graves ruined – by bulldozers” – Kathimerini (Greece)
July 06 – “Earth’s farthest from the sun today” – Deseret News (USA)
July 06 – “Vulnerable digs – intense heat, erosion threaten archaeological sites” – Tuscon Citizen (USA)
July 06 – “Crusader palace unearthed in Cyprus” – News.com (Australia)
July 05 – “Bodleian Library purchases unique medieval ‘atlas’” – AlphaGalileo (UK)
July 05 – “Ancient Chinese used hand axes 800,000 years ago: Earlier than Europeans” – People’s Daily (China)
July 05 – “Rosetta One Step Closer to Launch” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 05 – “Authorities take steps to retrieve Hapi” – Arabic News (Egypt)
July 05 – “Winds hamper Martian landing” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 05 – “Ancient skull could upset Africa migration theory” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 05 – “Australian experts unearth important dinosaur fossils” – Ananova (UK)
July 05 – “Out of Africa – Why did early humans leave Africa?” – ABC News Online (Australia)
July 05 – “Russia plans to put people on Mars” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 05 – “Underground palace discovered in East China” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 04 – “Discoveries at Saqqara – only 5 per cent have been excavated” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 04 – “Out of Africa migration may be a no-brainer” – New Scientist (UK)
July 04 – “New excavations resumed in the occupied Salamis ruins” – HR-Net (Cyprus)
July 04 – “The story of Behbeit Al-Hagar near ancient Sebennytos” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 04 – “Skull fossil challenges Out-of-Africa theory” – National Geographic News (USA)
July 04 – “Longest dinosaur could not raise its neck: Study” – Hindustan Times (India)
July 04 – “Divers told to return sunken treasure” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 04 – “Temple pillaged – the blocked sale at Christie’s New York auction house” – Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
July 03 – “Could marine creature be Legendary Dinosaur?” – Western Morning News (Cornwall)
July 03 – “Successful deployment tests for Rosetta” – ESA News (France)
July 03 – “Fossil was ‘first walker'” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 03 – “Byzantine gold coin unearthed in Qinghai” – XinhuaNet (China)
July 03 – “New fossil: link between fish and land animals?” – National Geographic News (USA)
July 03 – “Fossil identified as the earliest known creature to walk on land” – Ananova (UK)
July 03 – “World’s tallest Buddha receiving facelift” – People’s Daily (China)
July 03 – “‘Dinosaur’ captured on film off the coast of Cornwall” – Ananova (UK)
July 02 – “Tomb unearthed in Pyramids Plateau” – State Information Service (Egypt)
July 02 – “Exorcist called as 5 collapse on visit to dinosaur fossil site” – Bangkok Post (Thailand)
July 02 – “Can the sphinx keep its feet dry?” – EurekAlert (USA)
July 02 – “Historic Enfeh remains a mystery to its neighbors?” – Daily Star (Lebanon)
July 02 – “Sun blasts giant gas loop into space – 40 times the diameter of the Earth” – Ananova (UK)
July 02 – “National Trust list of America’s 11 most endangered historic places” – US Newswire (USA)
July 02 – “In the footsteps of Viking forefathers” – Norway Post (Norway)
July 01 – “Put Welsh first, Archdruid demands” – icNorthWales (Cymru)
July 01 – “10,000 ancient bamboo slips unearthed in Hunan” – People’s Daily (China)
July 01 – “Spaceprobe to begin comet quest” – BBC News Online (UK)
July 01 – “Moon Rock Legal Battle” – NEO Information Centre (UK)
July 01 – “Welsh are the `true’ Britons” – icWales (Cymru)
July 01 – “Ancient meditation cave discovered in North China” – People’s Daily (China)
July 2002 – “15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense” – Scientific American (USA)
July 2002 – “Myth & Monsters – images of a mysterious ancient American religion” – Archaeology.org (USA)
July 2002 – “Who built the great megaliths and stone circles of Great Britain?” – Smithsonian Magazine (USA)
July 2002 – “City of Victory: Burned to the ground by the Celtic warrior-queen Boudica” – Archaeology.org (USA)
July 2002 – “Homer’s Bones – truth and fiction in the Iliad and the Odyssey?” – Discover Magazine (USA)
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