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June 05, 2011 |
An infusion of governmental funds aims to keep natural and human occurrences from washing ancient artifacts out to sea.
A devastating December storm washed a Roman statue of Aphrodite out of a coastal escarpment.
No one knows when she lost her head or arm, but the 1,500-year-old sculpture believed to depict the Roman goddess Aphrodite rolled out into the Mediterranean Sea last December, looking as fresh as the day she was made. Her discovery after falling out from an escarpment onto the coast of Ashkelon, a...
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