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Time: 11:14 AM on Friday
CAEN, France (AP) _ The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue.Comment:
Oldest Cache of Marijuana?
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes,rather than as fibre for clothing or as foodsays a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany
Time: 11:00 AM on Friday
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The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental BotanyComment:
Time: 2:38 PM on Thursday
OTTAWA -- Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.Comment:
Time: 7:19 PM on Friday
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said FridayComment:
Time: 9:26 AM on Thursday
WARSAW, Poland - Researchers believe they have identified the remains of Nicolaus CopernicusComment:
Time: 9:07 AM on Thursday
HERODIUM, West Bank -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archeologists said Wednesday.Comment:
Time: 1:44 PM on Sunday
Much of the western world just honoured the millions of soldiers fallen in two world wars. But we also need to look beyond post-war myths and understand the tragic political mistakes that sent these soldiers to die in wars that might have been avoided.Comment:
Time: 9:04 PM on Saturday
PARIS - A five-year quest to locate the tomb of d'Artagnan -- the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers -- has led to a small Dutch church where new research suggests the swashbuckling hero is buried.Comment:
Time: 3:39 PM on Friday
A rare print of a 396-year-old map of Canada created by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at an auction in Britain for nearly $250,000, triple the expected price.Comment:
Time: 3:24 PM on Friday
Handwritten poems by Métis leader Louis Riel, given to a jail guard before Riel's 1885 execution in Regina, will soon go up for auction.Comment:
Time: 10:20 PM on Thursday
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Archeologists have unearthed an 8th-century church believed to be the largest of several discovered at the famous dig in Palmyra, central Syria.Comment:
Time: 9:29 AM on Wednesday
More than 60 years after the end of the Second World War, a P.E.I. veteran has received the Bronze Star for his service with a joint Canadian-American commando unit.Comment:
Time: 9:50 PM on Tuesday
A soldier who was killed during the Second World War will be honoured at a ceremony in France this weekComment:
Time: 10:25 AM on Tuesday
JERUSALEM — A luxurious gold, pearl and emerald earring provides a new visual clue about the life of the elite in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.Comment:
Time: 9:39 AM on Tuesday
Private George Lawrence Price died minutes before the end of WW1, waving to a pretty faceComment:
Time: 9:37 AM on Tuesday
SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt's chief archeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis.Comment:
Time: 8:29 AM on Sunday
The ink on cherished family photos and letters from loved ones who fought in the Great War has faded in the 90 years since the Armistice. But modern has technology made "leaps and bounds" in an effort to preserve rare artifacts and changing the way we accComment:
Time: 6:03 AM on Wednesday
'Their memory will live on,' Mayor Miller says at unveiling ceremony for World War II tributesComment:
Time: 11:15 AM on Sunday
THE Titanic sank two hours before help arrived because its bow and stern were bolted together with weak wrought-iron rivets, a new documentary will reveal.Comment:
Time: 1:32 PM on Thursday
Researchers have mapped the mitochondrial genome of one of the world's oldest mummies, discovering in the process a genetic lineage that does not match any of those known to exist today.Comment:
Time: 7:13 PM on Wednesday
Geological research suggests the tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was not the first of its kind and the last tsunami of a similar size in the Indian Ocean occurred about 600 years ago.Comment:
Time: 10:58 AM on Thursday
Springhill residents are marking the 50th anniversary of one of the country's worst mining disasters with a plaque and candlelight serviceComment:
Time: 8:11 PM on Sunday
A long-lost plaque dedicated to four brothers who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War was again installed at Jericho Park on Sunday.Comment:
Time: 8:25 AM on Sunday
Stalin was 'prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to the German border to deter Hitler's aggression just before the Second World War'Comment:
Time: 9:21 PM on Thursday
ROME - Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs beneath Rome that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real cityComment:
Time: 2:19 PM on Thursday
LONDON - Millvina Dean was only two months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, the last survivor of the tragic sinking is selling mementoes of the disaster to help pay her nursing home fees.Comment:
Time: 10:39 PM on Friday
Explorers found pieces of copper sheeting they think may have belonged to the ships of Sir John Franklin whose doomed 1845 journey to the Northwest Passage has captivated historians ever since, the expedition's leader said Friday.Comment:
Time: 10:19 PM on Monday
The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archeologists said Monday.Comment:
Time: 10:25 PM on Friday
It’s a standard image from any museum or textbook on early humans — skin-clad hunters brandishing stone-tipped spears and surrounding that icon of the Ice Age, an enormous but soon-to-be-supper woolly mammoth.Comment:
Time: 7:26 PM on Saturday
Billy Barker, who struck it rich during the Cariboo gold rush but squandered his fortune and died a pauper in Victoria more than 100 years ago, will have a boulder from one of his early mines to mark his plain gravesite at Ross Bay Cemetery.Comment:
Time: 6:54 PM on Wednesday
CALGARY - Nine years after its discovery in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, the 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle finally made its public debut Wednesday.Comment:
Time: 6:43 PM on Wednesday
JERUSALEM -- Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said Wednesday.Comment:
Time: 6:33 PM on Wednesday
A public dig organized by the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre has turned up the biggest fossil find in Manitoba in nearly 30 years.The summer dig near the centre in Morden, Man., that is still underway has already unearthed a mosasaur, an 11-metre-long aComment:
Time: 7:17 PM on Tuesday