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For more information about Updates, Click on the titles: More on New World's oldest statues found in Peru In 2005, Robert Benfer made “the find of a lifetime.” An MU professor emeritus of archaeology, Benfer was on an expedition 30 miles from Lima, Peru, six years ago when his team discovered two... Metal detection paves way for major dig METAL-detecting volunteers were finishing their work on the Philiphaugh battle site near Selkirk last weekend.  Archaeological dig at Philiphaugh Battlefield, Selkirk. Ian Brown from... Liverpool University recreates Hittites lost world THE real-life world of classical archaeologist Indiana Jones has been recreated for a new exhibition at Liverpool University.  At its centre is an exact recreation of the kind of base... The end of manned spaceflight? After a long delay, on May 24, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration finally unveiled its plan for human spaceflight, once the 30-year-old space shuttle programme ends in... Second rocky world makes Kepler-10 a multi-planet system The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet, one they describe as a "scorched, molten Earth."  This artist's conception depicts the Kepler-10 star system... Massive fish death in Manila More than 800 tons of fish have died and rotted on fish farms in a lake near Taal volcano south of Manila, with authorities blaming it on a sudden temperature drop.  A man uses a stick to... Tiny bubbles signal severe impacts to coral reefs worldwide A new study from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science scientists Chris Langdon, Remy Okazaki and Nancy Muehllehner and colleagues from the Australian... Officials meet for rainforest summit Top officials from the world's three major tropical rainforest regions will meet in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital on Sunday ahead of a summit to boost cooperation between the... Former Getty 'cult-goddess' still a puzzle In ancient times, central Sicily was the bread basket of the Western world. Fields of rolling wheat and wildflowers, groves of olive and pomegranate and citrus — even today, fertility seems to spring... Discoveries at Tal al-Qaramel, Syria The Syrian-Polish archaeological expedition has finished its excavation works for the current year at the site of Tal al-Qaramel on the right bank of the Euphrates River, 25 km to the west of... Aussie student cracks universe's 'missing mass' puzzle Astrophysicists have for long baffled with the universe's ''missing mass'' puzzle -- one of the major mysteries of science. Now, an Australian student claims to have finally cracked the scientific... New synchrotron technique could see hidden building blocks of life Scientists from Finland and France have developed a new synchrotron X-ray technique that may revolutionize the chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples or fossils. The results... German university loses Egyptian collection bought under Nazis The University of Leipzig is to lose an ancient Egyptian collection which it bought in 1936 from a Jewish professor, Georg Steindorff, a court ruled Thursday.  A court in Berlin decided that... Archaeologists call for better legislation along Chad-Cameroon pipeline Archaeologists attending an international conference on rescue archaeology along the Chad-Cameroon pipeline have called on governments of the two countries, and by extension, the rest of the... NASA's Hubble finds rare 'blue straggler' stars in Milky Way's hub NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.  The Hubble Telescope... Discovery of a very massive, isolated star in a nearby galaxy Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the discovery of a very massive, isolated star in a galaxy near our Milky Way. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the star VFTS 682 is one of the... Provided by The Archaeology News Network