Breaking News! March 2008
Thessaloniki, Greece: Construction work on a subway system for Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, began in 2006. This month, they announced that they have uncovered about 1,000 graves, some with treasures. Studies show that some date back as far as the first century B.C., at which time Rome controlled the country.
Rock Island, Palau: A South African palaeoanthropologist names Lee Berger returned to Palau for more study after finding remains of cave inhabitants that measure just over 3-feet-tall in 2006. His team just announced the discovery of a second cave with more fossil finds of hobbits, the name first given to finds of a similar nature in Indonesia. The bones date to between 1,400 and 3,000 years ago.
