Ghandigram ancient cemetery Standing Stones in India. Near the village of Gandhigram in Mandvi taluka, Kutch, Gujarat state India. Ancient cemetery with standing stones and stone circles.
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Keyhole Sink Rock Art in Coconino County, Arizona.Petroglyphs attributed to the Sinagua culture on the walls of a box canyon.Both abstract and figures of humans and animals can be seen. Some of the figures appear to depict the way the box canyon was used to hunt deer or elk.
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Mochican - Huaca Rajada Pyramid in Lambayeque State, Peru.Huaca Rajada is a massive adobe brick step pyramid in the Lambayeque Valley. It is the largest of three erroded pyramid on the Sipan site in the Mochican "Moche" archaeological district.
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Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone Cup and Ring marks in South Lanarkshire. A new find by myself. This stone has been moved from its original place and ended up being built into a dyke.
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Tell Brak Ancient Settlement in Syria. Former settlement, which is now a 30 hectares mound on the Khabur River in northeast Syria. Artifacts from the Halaf and Ubaid periods indicate a long history, but the site is best known for its sequence of rich temples of the late Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods when it was clearly an important centre.
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First Nations want say in the preservation of important archaeological sites First Nations want say in the preservation of important archaeological sites in Ontario.The province must ban the bulldozing of important native sites by developers without the consultation or even notification of First Nations people, says a spokesperson with the Huron-Wendat nation.
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Nazca Lines Geoglyphs in Ica State, Peru.The Nasca culture (200BC - 700AD) created large figures in the desert floor. Many can only be seen from the air. The lines were made by removing stones and pebbles coated with iron oxide (sometimes called "desert varnish") to reveal a lighter colored layer of ground beneath.
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El Brujo Ancient Town in Peru.Pyramids, Plazas, Farm Fields, Habitations.This ancient town in the Chicama River Valley was built by the Pre-Inca Moche culture and occupied from ~100AD to 800AD. The Moche lived along the northern coast of Peru, and are known for their decorative artifacts illustrating warfare and the decapitation of captives.
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Iraq 'bleeding antiquities' as instability continues As the US prepares to withdraw its last combat troops from Iraq, international cultural experts are warning that the country is "bleeding antiquities" and that artefacts representing the world's cradle of civilisation are still in peril.
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10,000 year old boy's skeleton found in Mexican Cave The 10,000-year-old boy's bones found in an underwater Mexican cave that could rewrite the history of the Americas.The remains of a prehistoric child that were found in an underwater cave in Mexico four years ago have now been removed by a team of divers. The skeletal remains of the boy, dubbed the Young Hol Chan, are more than 10,000 years old and are among the oldest human bones found in the Americas. Scientists hope that the well-preserved corpse will offers clues to ancient human migration.
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