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...Written attestations to its authenticity--and that of the Calvary rock a few yards away--date back more than 1,800 years. Tellingly, early rulers who might have been tempted to "adjust" the site's location did not do so. Says Dan Bahat, for many years Jerusalem's district archaeologist: "There's nothing to prove that this is not the site of the Crucifixion." If this sounds weak to a believer, coming from an archaeologist, it carries significant weight...
...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
DIED. T. GEOFFREY BIBBY, 83, British archaeologist who dug up the 4,000-year-old Middle Eastern kingdom of Dilmun, a secret and supposedly mythical island of everlasting life traversed by the epic hero Gilgamesh; near Aarhus, Denmark. Using little more than clay tablets inscribed with the legend of Sumeria, Bibby figured the mysterious city to be on the island of Bahrain, near Saudia Arabia...
...bone of a three-year-old child buried in a cemetery 70 miles north of Rome in the empire's waning days, circa A.D. 450. The remains were among some four dozen small skeletons--mostly of infants or stillbirths--excavated there in the early 1990s by University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren and colleagues. Because so many of the babies were preemies, and all seem to have been interred at about the same time, Soren suspected a malaria epidemic...