Archeology Boom

Archive Report

Wide Range of Recent Discoveries

Surging Interest in Archeology on All Continents

A jawbone fragment discovered in Africa indicates that man-like creatures existed a million and a half years earlier than previously supposed. In France, man's earliest known habitation, a temporary hunting camp 300,000 years old, has been unearthed. In Israel, archeologists have uncovered the first physical evidence of Roman crucifixions. In Egypt, an ancient shrine visited by Queen Cleopatra has been discovered. In Greece, the court where Socrates was tried and condemned to death has been found. These are only a few of many dramatic archeological finds in recent years.

New knowledge of the distant past is thus being unearthed on an unprecedented scale. The tempo of activity reflects the surging interest in archeology as a ...

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