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[Martha's Vineyard] The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation this week issued a public apology and launched an overhaul of its land management practices following the revelation that large numbers of trees and other plants had been dug up from two of its preserves and used to landscape an exclusive private property on the North Shore. *** The two foundation properties, the Caroline Tuthill Preserve in Edgartown and the Priscilla Hancock Meadow in Chilmark, were left damaged by heavy earth moving equipment brought in by contractors hired to landscape the 30-acre property of Dirk Ziff near Lambert’s Cove in West Tisbury.

LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig. It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said. "It's...

Art/Culture/History | 3 July, 2007 [ 10:45 ] Peru: Tomb believed to be older than "Señor de Sipan" found in northern Peru© Andina (LIP-ir) -- A team of archaeologists, led by Walter Alva, have discovered the wooden tomb of another member of the Mochica culture's elite - older than the "Señor de Sipan" (Lord of Sipan). These findings belong to the Moche civilization, which ruled the northern coast of Peru from the time of Christ to 800 AD, centuries prior to the Incas. Alva has stated that he and his team are investigating and within the next few days will...

After 10 years, the new excavations in SipánAntonio Aimi This is probably one of the most important archaeological projects in the world, at least under the economical aspect: it’s a project of about 1.350.000 Euros. As for the rest, if we want to talk cheap, roughly but objectively, we can say that the previous campaigns of archaeological excavations resulted in more than 8 kilos of gold and silver, paling the mythical Tomb 7 of Monte Albán and the treasures of any El Dorado in Colombia. We are talking about the new excavation campaign originating in these days from Sipán, a...