Archaeoscoop: Climate Change Mummies
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In today's top three headlines we have a link between Mumification and climate change, a masonry auction and news of an archive saved.
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1) Climate change shaped burial rituals:
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-shaped-ancient-burial-rituals-1.11161
2) Salisbury Cathedral stonework to be sold in charity auction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-19206576
3) Video: Heritage grant helps to save Westmorland Archive:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19245992
Winchester Map shows Georgian history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-19248074
Wars destroy thread of common history:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wars-destroy-thread-of-common-history.aspx?pageID=238&nID=27697&NewsCatID=375
Stolen historical tile returns Minister Günay announces:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/stolen-historical-tile-returns-minister-gunay-announces.aspx?pageID=238&nID=27704&NewsCatID=375
Public pay to be amateur archaeologists at Flag Fen:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9744000/9744417.stm
Video from the Cowgate dig in Edinburgh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ht7fbb0XWI&feature=plcp
Archaeologists Find Thracian Town on Bulgarian Sea Coast:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=142284