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Ancient finds

A look at the items discovered during archaeological digs.

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Ancient finds

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  1. The temple of the Parthenon is reflected in a rain puddle atop the ancient hill of the Acropolis during a rainy day October 24, 2012. REUTERS-Yannis Behrakis

  2. Visitors listen to a guide while standing near ceramic figurines at the exhibition 'Gold, Prehispanic art from Colombia' at the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City October 17, 2012. The figurines originates the Narino region, dating between 600 B.C. and 1700 A.D. About 250 artifacts, including pectoral golden ornaments, clay vessels and volcanic stones produced by pre-Hispanic cultures are featured in the exhibition, according to organizers and the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History. REUTERS-Henry Romero

  3. Two women stand beside murals in the house of Lucas Asicona Ramirez, in Chajul, in the Quiche region, October 9, 2012. Ramirez is among four householders in Chajul, an Ixil Maya community some 220 miles (350km) from Guatemala City, struggling to preserve murals revealed after peeling back plaster on the walls of ancient homes. Experts believe similar murals could lie hidden in a further eight homes in the town. Painted by the current occupants' Mayan ancestors, the friezes cover several walls of the homes, whose colonial history is glimpsed in details including heavy hardwood doors and carved stone pillars propping up modern tin roofs. REUTERS-Jorge Dan Lopez

  4. A man rides his camel past the pyramids in Giza October 11, 2012. Egypt's antiquities authorities announced the re-opening of the Khefren pyramid and six other tombs. REUTERS-Mohamed Abd El Ghan

  5. A man looks at ancient statues inside the newly opened tomb of Meres Ankh 111 near the pyramids in Giza October 11, 2012. REUTERS-Mohamed Abd El Ghany

  6. Archaeologist Federico Castaneda holds a cup with religious carvings as she takes pictures of the archaeological piece found in the 'Entierro 61' (Burial 61) of the royal tomb of the Mayan Queen Kalomt'e K'abel, wife of the King Wak, K'inich Bahlam II, in a laboratory in Guatemala City October 5, 2012. The cup was unearthed in the archaeological site El Peru in Laguna del Tigre National Park in Peten, north of Guatemala City, in June 2012. REUTERS-Jorge Dan Lopez

  7. An archaeologist works on skulls and over jawbones found at an archaeological site at the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City October 5, 2012. Archaeologists of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered 45 skulls and over 200 jawbones as well as a sacred Aztec tree trunk at the ruins of a ceremonial site in the throbbing heart of Mexico City's historic centre. The remains were discovered near the ruins of the Templo Mayor, one of the largest and most important temples of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, which was used for religious ceremonies and human sacrifices. REUTERS-Henry Romero

  8. A sacred tree, planted in a circular stone structure, is seen at an archaeological site at the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City October 5, 2012. REUTERS-Henry Romero

  9. A man stands on the wall of a ruin at the city of Diriyah, where restoration is being carried out, 20km (12 miles) west of Riyadh September 20, 2012. The caramel tones of the mud walls, the smell of dust mingling with water and the muffled clanging of hammer on stone at crumbling Diriyah belong not to Saudi Arabia's impoverished past, however, but a restoration project costing at least $133 million. It was in Diriyah that the ruling al-Saud family first rose to power, and in memorialising its ruins, the authorities are celebrating a telling of national history that puts the dynasty and its clerical allies front and centre. REUTERS-Fahad Shadee

  10. Archaeologists clean pre-Hispanic remains found in Ciudad Sandino town, September 25, 2012. Construction workers unearthed by accident several graves believed to date from the years 1300-1500. The pre-Hispanic cemetery contained the graves of 25 infants. REUTERS-Oswaldo Rivas

  11. A worker checks Egyptian hieroglyphs carved onto the walls the 'Akhethotep & Ptahhotep' tomb, near the Saqqara or 'Step' Pyramid, south of Cairo, September 20, 2012. Egypt's antiquities authority reopened the 'Serapeum' and 'Akhethotep & Ptahhotep' tombs, after the ancient tombs had undergone ten years of renovations, with an estimated cost of 2 million dollars. REUTERS-Mohamed Abd El Ghany

  12. The artefacts in the Vistula riverbed revealed by low water levels is seen in Warsaw September 18, 2012. A huge cargo of elaborate marble stonework that sank to the bottom of Poland's Vistula river four centuries ago has re-appeared after a drought and record-low water levels revealed the masonry lying in the mud on the river bed. Archaeologists believe the stonework was part of a trove which 17th-century Swedish invaders looted from Poland's rulers and loaded onto barges to transport home, only for the booty to go to the bottom when the vessels sank. REUTERS-Kacper Pempel

  13. Archaeologist Mathew Morris stands in the trench where he found skeleton remains during an archaeological dig to find the remains of King Richard III in Leicester, central England September 12, 2012. A 500-year-old mystery of where England's King Richard III was buried after his death in battle may finally be about to be solved after archaeologists found bones beneath a city centre parking lot. A team from the University of Leicester are excavating where a Franciscan friary known as Greyfriars may house the monarch's remains after he died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 - the last English king to die in battle. REUTERS-Darren Staples

  14. A general view of a burial chamber is pictured at the Atzompa archeological site in the Mexican state of Oaxaca August 23, 2012. REUTERS-Jorge Luis Plat

  15. A general view shows an archaeological site in central Sofia July 23, 2012. Bulgaria hopes to draw tourists intrigued by ancient tombs, mosaics and sewage systems later this year, thanks to engineers excavating a new line for the Sofia metro who stumbled across a street of prime real estate - from 4th century AD. Beneath modern Sofia lie the remains of Serdica, a lively, cosmopolitan city where Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, lived for a year while looking for a new capital for his empire. REUTERS-Stoyan Neno

  16. Hristo Ganchev, head of Cultural Heritage, takes pictures at an archaeological site in central Sofia July 23, 2012. REUTERS-Stoyan Nenov

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