Believe it or not, Guedelon Medieval Castle construction started in 1999 and is slated to be completed in 2020. Only tools used during the Middle Ages are being used, which explains why the building process has taken so long. There is no electricity on site, therefore no power tools are being used by the 50 artisans working on the project. Situated near the quiet French town of Treigny in the historic region of Burgundy, this is not an archaeological site although it appears to be by tourists.

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Canadian archeologists from the University of Toronto are restoration and interpreting an Assyrian tablet from Southern Turkey. The tablet is 43cm long and 23cm wide with 650-700 lines of writing on it and according to archeologist Timothy Harrison, the tablet, dating from about 670 BC, is a treaty between a powerful Assyrian king and his weaker vassal states, written in formal language similar to that used in the Old Testament. The find is just one of a large number of finds from the same site. Over 30,000 artifacts have been unearthed so far.

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