"The military say the evidence points to 20 Iraqi dead having been recovered from the battle … and handed back to the families the next day".
Two significant groups of papyri have been discovered at Abū Ṣīr, one having been recovered in 1893 and another having come to light during excavations in 1982.
Some were identified as belonging to a San Francisco madam whose boat was shipwrecked off the California coast in the 19th century or as having been recovered from another shipwreck off the east coast of Florida.
The use of underglaze blue was introduced from the Middle East, where it had been employed at least as early as the 9th century, specimens thus decorated having been recovered at Sāmarrāʾ.
The agency found a memo that Mr. Bennette had helped prepare that listed one of the cars found at the auto repair shop and three of the others as having been recovered at ground zero and crushed at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.
The technological and social relevance of osseous implements is poorly understood, despite relatively large assemblages having been recovered from various archaeological sites across the region.
