OT - From the news: plot and ideas II

World's most expensive glass up for auction
1,700-year-old bowl likely to sell for 2 million pounds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5288000/

Hidden fresco found after 300 years
Restorers follow pigeons' pathto discover art beneath
Spanish cathedral's false ceiling
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5288480/

Ancient Indian settlement found in Utah
Pristine site was kept secret for more than 50 years
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5288477/

Arctic abyss may reveal lost world
The depths of the ice-capped Arctic Ocean could reveal a lost world of living fossils and exotic new species from jellyfish to giant squid
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/06/24/environment.arctic.reut/index.html