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23/01/2012 - France - Unesco

25,000-year-old cave paintings and Burgundy wine bid for World Heritage status

A cave containing 25,000-year-old paintings and the climats of one the world’s most famous wine regions are France’s candidates to be added to the UN’s World Heritage status in ...

31/03/2011 - Hidden Paris

The man who saved Paris from sinking

With metro tunnels, sewers, old quarries and catacombs crisscrossing under its streets, Paris is a city of layers.

01/12/2010 - Italy

Italy denies Pompeii wall collapses have to do with budget cuts

Two ancient Roman walls in the archaeological site of Pompeii collapsed on Wednesday

Astonishing Lapita pottery from the Pacific
14/11/2010 - Culture in France

Astonishing Lapita pottery from the Pacific

Transport yourself 3,000 years back in time to the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu at the  Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors exhibition at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris.

In the shadow of the dinosaurs
18/04/2010 - The Club 9516 Sound Kitchen

In the shadow of the dinosaurs

This week on the Club 9516/Sound Kitchen, palaeontologist Dr. Christian de Muizon talks about his Mama and Baby fossil, the 64 million year old pantodont.

The Ark of God Carried Into the Temple
17/02/2010 - Africa - Archaeology

Zimbabwe hopes to boost tourism with Biblical replica

Zimbabwe is pinning its hopes on a tourism revival, on the astonishing claim that a 600-year-old replica of the the biblical Ark of the the Covenant has been found.

17/02/2010 - Egypt / archaeology

King Tut, who's your daddy?

Through DNA testing and computerised tomography (CT) scans, researchers have determined that the father of famed Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun was the monotheistic pharoah Akhenaten

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