<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Huge statue of Roman ruler found : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Huge statue of Roman ruler found : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-29T21:59:53+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Huge statue of Roman ruler found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/73605/1/" /><id>73605</id><summary><![CDATA[Huge statue of Roman ruler found]]></summary><issued>2008-08-26T03:40:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-26T03:40:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Parts of a giant, exquisitely-carved marble sculpture depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius have been found at an archaeological site in Turkey.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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The 2,000-year-old ruins were found about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of Rome, near Cittareale, lead archaeologist Filippo Coarelli said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marble Head of Emperor Titus Found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/125734/1/" /><id>125734</id><summary><![CDATA[Marble Head of Emperor Titus Found]]></summary><issued>2009-06-24T11:14:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-24T11:14:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of ancient Roman treasures, including a marble head of the Roman emperor Titus, during an excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man Found Hanged On Mel Gibson's Property]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/55106/1/" /><id>55106</id><summary><![CDATA[Man Found Hanged On Mel Gibson's Property]]></summary><issued>2008-03-20T21:45:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-20T21:45:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The victim was found Wednesday morning by the foreman of the job site, on the parcel of land owned by Gibson. 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Now, nearly 2,000 years later, the haul of 19 pieces of bronze tableware is offering a glimpse into life in the final days of Roman Britain.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/50399/1/" /><id>50399</id><summary><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England]]></summary><issued>2008-02-13T07:23:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-13T07:23:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[University of Exeter archaeologists have discovered a Roman fort in South East Cornwall, England. Dating back to the first century AD, this is only the third Roman fort ever to have been found in the county. 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Huge crop eating bugs found in the mail from Taiwan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61846/1/" /><id>61846</id><summary><![CDATA[Ecoterrorism?  Huge crop eating bugs found in the mail from Taiwan]]></summary><issued>2008-05-14T19:48:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-14T19:48:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A box with huge live beetles &amp; food designed to keep them alive during shipping was found in Philadelphia.  They were labeled according to gender, which infers that the recipient may have wanted to breed them.]]></content></entry></feed>