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UN fears spread of Machu Picchu town

AFP - 2 hours 7 minutes ago

The UN's cultural arm UNESCO is calling for emergency measures to prevent the town that feeds tourists to Peru's archaeological marvel Machu Picchu from becoming overrun.

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Mickey Shunick: Missing Student's Bike Found Under Bridge
Good Morning America via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 5:15 pm ET
Bike Found Over 20 Miles From House Where Shunick Was Last Seen
Shakers' work amazes UK students digging into the past at Pleasant Hill
Lexington Herald-Leader - 2 hours 19 minutes ago
Fourteen University of Kentucky archaeology students are learning the fundamentals of excavation, site interpretation and how to classify and catalog artifacts while working on an excavation site at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.
Archaeology and the media
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sun May 27, 4:58 am ET
Jesus' family tomb is one of the more sensational 'discoveries' of recent years, but is it true? Media interest in ancient discoveries is forcing the slow and painstaking discipline of archaeology into a swift and swashbuckling sport according to Egyptologist Dr Karin Sowada. In contrast, 25 years of digging and reconstructing a site at the Dead Sea in Jordan, under the direction of Konstantinos ...
Abigail Seldin, Whitney Haring-Smith - Weddings
New York Times - Sun May 27, 1:37 am ET
The couple, who met at Oxford as Rhodes scholars, are to be married in Florida.
Earliest musical instruments in Europe 40,000 years ago
Science Daily - 27 minutes ago
The first modern humans in Europe were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity as early as 40,000 years ago, according to new research.
Police search for missing college student in La.
Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 12:26 am ET
Louisiana authorities are searching for a college student who has been missing for nearly a week after she was last seen on a bicycle in the early morning hours.
Women protest in mass Slut Walk
Daily Telegraph - 43 minutes ago
SEVERAL thousand women staged boisterous 'Slut Walks' in several Brazilian cities to protest sexual violence against women.
Cops 'flooded' with tips in search for missing student
Fox News - Sun May 27, 10:05 am ET
Louisiana college student Michaela Shunick, who disappeared May 19, is thought to be the bicyclist seen on this surveillance video. AP/Lafayette PD This undated photo shows a pickup truck of interest to Lafayette, La., investigators in the search for Michaela Shunick.
The ultimate freedom
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news - Sun May 27, 4:16 pm ET
James C. Scott writes powerfully in favour of marginalised peoples' refusal to be subjected to extracting rulers in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.
As our languages make clear, context is a human specialty
Los Angeles Times - Sun May 27, 8:24 am ET
Research shows that humans are remarkably good at divining one another's intentions using context — a skill, incidentally, that computers have not yet mastered. Is Bob your uncle? Probably depends on what language you're speaking. In Urdu, if Robert's your father's brother, he's your chacha — but not if he's your father's older brother ( taaya ), your mother's brother ( mamu ), your father's ...
Professor Dafydd Jenkins: Barrister and authority on the laws of medieval Wales
Independent - 1 hour 33 minutes ago
Dafydd Jenkins was the major authority on the laws of the 10th century Hywel ap Cadell, or Hywel Dda, the only king of Wales to be given the epithet "Good".
How the Pharaohs gave us the cat: Egyptians were the first to breed the domestic moggie claim scientists who say they ...
Daily Mail - 1 hour 51 minutes ago
It has long been debated how cats went from running in the wild to becoming our domesticated furry friends. Researchers may have solved the mystery after analysing the genetic makeup of Egyptian cat mummies.
Thousands take part in 'Slut Walks' in Brazil
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat May 26, 7:58 pm ET
Several thousand scantily clad women staged boisterous "Slut Walks" in several Brazilian cities Saturday to protest sexual violence against women.
Underwater archaeology school returns to NMC
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Sun May 27, 7:29 am ET
People from around the world will dive deep into the study of underwater archaeology next month at Northwestern Michigan College.
Missing LA student's bike found under bridge
WABC-TV New York - 1 hour 18 minutes ago
Two fishermen found the bicycle of 22-year-old missing Louisiana student Michaela "Mickey" Shunick on Sunday.