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CULTURE IN FRANCE: Astonishing Lapita pottery from the Pacific
Vanuatuan artist Edgar Hinge creating a sand drawing of a turtle at Quai Branly Museum in ParisLaura Angela BagnettoTransport yourself 3,000 years back in time to the South Pacific archipelago of...
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ITALY: Italy denies Pompeii wall collapses have to do with budget cuts
Two ancient Roman walls in the archaeological site of Pompeii collapsed on Wednesday , a day after one collapsed and a frescoed house was ruined last month. The government denies the site has degraded...
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HIDDEN PARIS: The man who saved Paris from sinking
With metro tunnels, sewers, old quarries and catacombs crisscrossing under its streets, Paris is a city of layers. And Charles Axel Guillaumot is often credited with saving the city from collapsing...
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FRANCE - UNESCO: 25,000-year-old cave paintings and Burgundy wine bid for...
A cave containing 25,000-year-old paintings and the climats of one the world’s most famous wine regions are France’s candidates to be added to the UN’s World Heritage status in 2013. France’s Culture...
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WORLD NEWS EXPLAINED: Skeleton of English King Richard III found under...
The skull of a skeleton found at the Grey Friars excavation site in Leicester, thought to be that of King Richard III Reuters/University of Leicester/HandoutScientists in the United Kingdom confirmed...
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FRANCE: Half a million archeological items 'pillaged' each year in France
France, with its many historical treasures, loses at least half a million buried archeological artefacts to pillagers each year, a group fighting the practice said on Wednesday. Authorised...
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INTERVIEW: PERU - FRANCE: French explorer launches search for Inca lost city
A French explorer is planning to search for a lost Incan city reputed to hold vast treasure. Thierry Jamin believes the city of Paititi can be found in the Peruvian jungle but detractors say his...
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FRANCE: French scientists find giant dinosaur's toe
French scientists have found a 34-centimetre toe bone belonging to a dinosaur that could have been more than 40 metres long. The bone was found by a palaeontology student at a site at Angeac-Charente...
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FRANCE - UNITED KINGDOM: French archaeologists find 2,000-year-old boomerang...
0 The Gauls used boomerangs 2,000 years ago, according to archaeologists who have found a wooden curved stick at a beach near Cherbourg in northern France. Reconstitution of a Gallic village at...
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FRANCE : 200,000-year-old Neanderthal human remains found in Normandy
0 French archaeologists have discovered some 200,000-year-old Neanderthal human remains in Normandy in an extremely rare discovery in northwestern Europe. Neanderthal cave at Gorham, Gibraltar. AFP...
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FRANCE: Hundreds of skeletons found in cellar of Paris supermarket
0 French archeologists are trying to unravel the secret of 200 human skeletons found in mass graves beneath a Monoprix supermarket in the centre of Paris. They know the building is on the site of a...
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FRANCE: Fifth-century tomb containing Greek, Etruscan relics found in eastern...
0 French archaeologists have unearthed an iron-age tomb dating back to the fifth century BC containing Greek and Etruscan objects showing that the local Celtic prince traded with the cities of the...
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EGYPT - FRANCE: Egyptian mummy found in trash to go on show in Paris suburb...
0 A museum in a Paris suburb is to exhibit the mummy of a five-year-old ancient Egyptian girl that was found by refuse collectors after a local resident threw out with the garbage. Experts have found...
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FRANCE: Rare ancient Roman frescos found in south of France
0 Extremely rare ancient Roman frescos, comparable to those found in the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, have been uncovered in the historic southern French city of Arles. Photos of the ancient...
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SOUND KITCHEN: The new stars of South Africa
David Franklin/Getty Images/A TerradeThis week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the new/old species just discovered in South Africa. There’s “On This Day”, the listener...
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