New archaeological discoveries by a team of international scientists, in 2006, have revealed that the Santorini event was much more massive than previously thought ; it expelled of magma and rock into the Earth's atmosphere, compared to previous estimates of only in 1991 ,< ref >

These archaeological sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 11 April 2006 in the Cultural category.

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

In 2006 archaeological excavations at Pocahontas Island found evidence of prehistoric Native American settlement dated to 6500 B. C.

In Hungary, a great Late Sarmatian pottery center was reportedly unearthed between 2001 – 2006 near Budapest, in Üllő5 archaeological site.

* On website Archaeolog-all things archaeological ( password required ) at Stanford University, accessed June 26, 2006.

During an archaeological excavation made later in 2006, it was noticed that an electric ground cable had been dug in the courtyard at 40 cm depth.

On January 21, 2006, Morales attended an indigenous spiritual ceremony at the archaeological site and modern spiritual center of Tiwanaku where he was crowned as Apu Mallku or Supreme Leader of the Aymara, the indigenous group to which Morales belongs, and received gifts from many groups representing indigenous peoples from various parts of Latin America and the world.

An archaeological dig in May 2006 revealed that the town's ancestors may date back further than 250 BC.

In May 2006 the renovation work were frozen after of an exceptional archaeological discovery, which was found under the gallery of the theater.

A full archaeological excavation completed in January 2006 found the Tudor Chapel and Vestry with its tiled floor in situ.

In later years, he helped to forge greater links with archaeological departments in the People's Republic of China, and in 2006 travelled to ten different Chinese cities to interview academics about how they taught archaeology-he had a plan to write a book about this, but this never materialised.

In October and November 2006 and again in October and November 2007, the Chronognostic Research Foundation provided the funds necessary to conduct an archaeological investigation of the anomalies discovered in Touro Park during geophysical studies of the past three years.

During August – September 2006 archaeological excavations were carried out adjacent to Shiloh ’ s tel.

The body also plays an environmental and archaeological role as part of the road building programme, publishing an archaeology magazine, seanda, since 2006.

In June 2006 a research team from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History ( INAH ) began excavations at Zazacatla, a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site located within the municipal boundaries.

Chemical analysis of the firing remains showed them to contain high quantities of bone-ash ; thereby pre-dating the claim of Josiah Spode to have invented the bone china process .< ref >< cite >' Industries: Pottery: Bow porcelain ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General ; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton ( 1911 ), pp. 146-50 accessed: 18 November 2006 </ ref > However, more recent investigations of documentary and archaeological evidence suggests the concern was located entirely to the north of the High Street and across the river.

Since 2006 the university of Munich ( Germany ) is conducting excavations on the archaeological site.

( 2006 ) concluded Oryza sativa rice was domesticated at least twice — indica in eastern India, Myanmar and Thailand ; and japonica in southern China and Vietnam — though they concede that there is archaeological and genetic evidence for a single domestication of rice in the lowlands of China.

The work of John Coles, Bryony Coles and the Somerset Levels Project was recognised in 1996 when they won the Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) Award for the best archaeological project offering a major contribution to knowledge, and in 2006 with the European Archaeological Heritage Prize.

Only in 2005 – 2006 did archaeological digs for the Marmaray project in the location of the Harbor of Theodosius ( modern Yenikapi ) uncover the remains of over 36 Byzantine ships from the 6th to 10th centuries, including four light galleys of the galea type.

The archaeological record for Pericú territory extends at least as far back as the early Holocene, about 10, 000 years ago, and perhaps into the late Pleistocene ( Fujita 2006 ).

The temple's foundations, administrative buildings, granaries and residences were recently uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological expedition in early 2006.

From December 2006 to April 2007, the museum harboured collections of the Kabul Museum, with archaeological pieces from the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum, and the Indo-Scythian treasure of Tillia Tepe.

Artifacts were discovered in the cemetery in the 18th Century and the site was the subject of archaeological investigations between 1998 and 2006.

* According to a 2006 survey of 1, 500 adults by Satio, a third of Belarusians use the Internet — 38 % of the urban population and 16 % of the rural population.

The 2006 sociolinguistic survey of all Basque provinces showed that in 2006 of all people aged 16 and above:

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

A similar survey in 2006 by Robert Whaples polled PhD members of the American Economic Association.

In a 2006 survey of " 15 of the world's top travel writers " by The Observer, Palin named Peru's Pongo de Mainique ( canyon below the Machu Picchu ) his " favourite place in the world ".

The parameters that improved compared to the 2006 survey were: interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practices, and universal service obligation in the mobile sector ; and market entry, interconnection, regulation of anti-competitive practices and universal service obligation in the fixed sector.

A survey by Leger Marketing in November 2006 showed that Canadians were deeply divided on this issue.

However, using data from an internet survey based experiment performed in 2006 on a random sample of 574 adult university students, a study was conducted that examined public approval for the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism.

A survey conducted by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore indicated that 78 % of households own computers at home and 7 in 10 households have Internet access ( 2006 ).

The current access situation and the proximity of the two roads has drawn widespread criticism, highlighted by a 2006 National Geographic survey.

In a 2006 breed specific survey conducted by The Kennel Club and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Scientific Committee, responses highlighted several health issues.

* A 2006 survey of leading rock and film stars by Uncut magazine ranking films, books, music or TV shows that changed the world, placed The Prisoner at # 10, the highest for a TV show.

* " Corporate Wiki Users: Results of a Survey ": 2006 survey of 168 corporate wiki users

The 2006 survey by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that license sales generate approximately $ 700 million annually.

* Gay Bashings In Schools-A survey released in 2006 shows that gay teens still experience homophobic attacks in their schools

Chanchal Kumar Sharma ( 2006: 54 ) finds in his literature survey:

In a survey of language professionals in 2006, 82. 5 % out of 874 replies confirmed the use of a TM.

While the official groundbreaking of the tunnel took place in 2006 ( with survey tunnels drilled in the same year ), substantial work was not slated to begin until 2011, and the tunnel's planned date of completion is in 2025.

However, there are calls for this to be changed, and a 2006 survey conducted by the BBC suggested that 55 % of the English public would rather have " Land of Hope and Glory " than " God Save the Queen " as their national anthem.

In a 2006 survey the people of Boston were labelled as being the fattest in the country .< ref >< http :// www. timesonline. co. uk / tol / news / uk / article601137. ece ></ ref > Another report, cited in " The Sun " in 2008, highlighted the fact that Boston has the highest number of immigrants per capita of any town in Britain ( an estimated 1 / 4 of the population are immigrants ).

In a survey conducted by The Guardian in 2006, Peterloo came second to the Putney Debates as the event from British history that most deserved a proper monument or a memorial.

In 2006, Americans spend over $ 17 billion on their children, according to a NRF survey.