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Audio news from Archaeologica

(1) Radar search system explores historic village site below New York's Central Park; Seneca Village is a vanished 19th-century settlement of poor folks -- blacks, Irish immigrants and others -- that existed before the park landscapers arrived in the 1850s. (2) Roman temple excavation continues; 2,000-year-old treasure reached an ignominious end. (3) Research continues on accounting system of the Incas; South American Indian culture apparently used layers of knotted strings as a complicated ledger. (4) Red Sea site is model for early monasteries; renovators in Egypt say they find oldest monk cell.
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