1890 IOWA PRAIRIE
How one archaeologist’s drawings became an over 100 million dollar smuggling scandalIn 1959 British archeologist James Mellaart published drawings of a royal Bronze Age treasure that he said he had seen in a house in Izmir,...
A stone fell onto an Iowa prairie in 1890; a farmer dug up a 66 pound meteorite and sold it for $105In 1890, an Iowa farmer sold a 66 pound meteorite for $105. A sheriff seized it, the buyer’s university took it back, and the Iowa Supreme ...
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