Mapping Alexandria's royal quarters

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Archaeologists have been able to map the submerged Royal Quarters of Alexandria's Great Harbor. A series of earthquakes had destroyed the royal quarters by the mid-fifth century AD. A team led by Franck Goddio of the Institut Europeen d'Archaeologie Sous-Marine has been working on the mapping since 1992. The site of the palace of Cleopatra VII has been identified on the island of Antirrhodos, which is now submerged. Mapping of the eastern harbor was mostly done by 1997, when the team started excavations on Antirrhodos.

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A magnificent Mayanist: students and colleagues gather to honor Linda Schele

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Mayan scholar Linda Schele is honored by her peers, students and international scholars during a three-day tribute to her accomplishments in archeology. Schele is best known for her work joining archaeological and epigraphical evidence with studies on modern Maya beliefs. Much of her work has applications to other cultures throughout the Americas.

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Aztecs take Manhattan

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The exhibition 'The Aztec Empire' at the Guggenheim Museum in New York which is to be held on 13 February 2005 offers more than 400 masterworks wrought in clay, stone, wood, feathers, shells and gold by the Aztecs, their predecessors and their neighbors. The show makes the most of Frank Lloyd Wright's framed spiraling exhibition space.

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