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• How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work
• How the Rosetta Stone Works
• How Carbon-14 Dating Works
• How Easter Island Works
• How Time Works
• How Population Works
• How Mummies Work
• Is there a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun?
• Why is Mesopotamia called the cradle of civilization?

More Great Links

• Dig for a Day
• American Museum of Natural History
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Sources

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• "Archaeology." Encyclopędia Britannica.
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• "Archaeology's Dating Game/Matching Radiocarbon Dates to the Calendar." Scientific American. September, 2000.
  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=archaeologys-dating-gamem
• Bennett, Paul. "Ruins Under Rome's Basement." National Geographic. July, 2006.
  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0607/feature3/index.html
• Byrd, Melanie. "The Napoleonic Institute of Egypt." The International Napoleonic Society.
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• Ceram, C.W. "Gods, Graves and Scholars." Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1968.
• DePalma, Anthony. "And Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts." The New York Times. December 12, 2007.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/nyregion/12magdalen.html
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• "Taking on the Tomb Robbers." The Economist. September 6, 2007. http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9769069
• U.S. Department of State.
  http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/4033.htm