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Admiral Zheng He’s Treasure Fleet

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March 8, 2010

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Agencies in China and Kenya penned an agreement last month to investigate the cultural links between China and Kenya in Kenya’s Lamu Archpelago, which include an exploration of sunken ships from Admiral Zheng He’s treasure fleet.

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Ancient African Treasure In Illinois

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On an early spring afternoon in 1982, a man was slowly walking alone through a forsaken cemetery in southern Illinois. In his hands he carried a common [...]

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Hitler’s Tunnels For Germania Discovered

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Berlin has opened three vast tunnels under the city built as part of Adolf Hitler’s vision of a grandiose Nazi capital, Reuters reports.
Hitler’s tunnels were to house a transit system beneath planned boulevards, squares, and huge buildings, including a Great Hall with room for 180,000 people.

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The Seventh Wonder Of The World

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Along with Egypt’s Giza Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (today’s Iraq), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Colossus of Rhodes in Greece, the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt) and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.”

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National Marine Sanctuary Shipwrecks

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The mission of NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries is to serve as the trustee for the nation’s system of marine protected areas, to conserve, protect, and enhance their biodiversity, ecological integrity and cultural legacy.
Here are just a few of the many shipwrecks they manage and document and their stories:

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Evidence Of An Advanced Civilization During The Ice Age

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A look at the book:  Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings
by Dr. Charles Hapgood
This book gives compelling evidence that there existed advanced civilizations prior to any that we are now aware of. Scholars have long dismissed legends and myths of such civilizations as mere story-telling and embellishment by our ancestors.
Dr. Charles Hapgood [...]

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Threshold to Cleopatra’s mausoleum discovered off Alexandria coast

They were one of the world’s most famous couples, who lived lives of power and glory – but who spent their last hours in despair and confusion. Now, more than 2,000 years since Antony and Cleopatra walked the earth, historians believe they may finally have solved the riddle of their last hours together.

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2009’s Top 10 Most Exciting Discoveries In Archaeology

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Archaeology, a U.S. magazine, recently issued a list of the year’s top ten most exciting discoveries.
(And don’t forget our feature story about . . . AMAZON HEADHUNTERS!)

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The Oldest Church In The World

Megiddo prison, surrounded by prison guards on horseback supplemented by guard dogs, is not a place that many people would care to approach. But if a plan now in the final stages comes to fruition, it could become a tourist attraction drawing Israelis and tourists from around the world.
Behind the prison walls, the remains of [...]

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