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Scholars set date for Odysseus' bloody homecoming
WASHINGTON - Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them.
Source:(AP)
2008-06-25
Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past
Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance.
Nations:South Africa Norway
2006-11-11
From Hitler's globe to Berlin's wall: German history show opens
Roman artifacts, a bullet-pierced globe from Hitler's office, chunks of the Berlin Wall -- all part of a sprawling permanent exhibition opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel that attempts to explain what it has meant over the last 2,000 years to be German.
Nations:Germany People:Angela Merkel
2006-06-02
Celebrated Winchester rifle may have fired last shot
The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week.
Nations:U.S. People:Steve McQueen James Stewart
2006-04-03
Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death
Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones?
Nations:Dominican Republic Italy Greece Spain
2006-03-10
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