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2013 Event - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars

2013 Event - Scientist in China discover an ancient human fossil in a cave near Beijing; the 40,000 year-old leg bone shows it was related to the ancestors of present-day Asians and Native Americans

2012 Event - A biblical picture of Samson and a Hebrew inscription is discovered in an ancient synagogue in the Galilee region of northern Israel

2012 Event - Between 60 to 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic games are stolen by thieves who broke into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece

2011 Event - Ancient Korean royal books looted by French troops in 1866 are returned to South Korea; 1,000 officials and locals celebrate the return of the 297-volume 'Oegyujanggak' books

2010 Event - In China, a 2,400 ear-old pot of soup is discovered near the country's ancient capital of Xi'an

2010 Event - A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified by a fossil in Thailand

2010 Event - A construction site in London reveals a Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

1963 Death - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63

1937 Death - Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82

1930 Birthday - Velio Tormis, born in Estonia, composed music based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs, most important composer in 20th century Estonia

1926 Birthday - David Ogilvy, born in London, England, David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, judge, served as Lord Chamberlain

1909 Birthday - Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times

1881 Event - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park

1873 Birthday - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, U.S., novelist, Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942

1871 Event - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City

1864 Birthday - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Ancient Judaism

1854 Birthday - Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist, Grammar of Ancient Egypt

1832 Birthday - Gustave Dore, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator, Inferno, Ancient Mariner

1795 Death - Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies

1772 Birthday - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet, Rime of Ancient Mariner

1717 Birthday - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, History of Ancient Art













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