Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

Recent excavations have found other examples.

Recent excavations and surveys in progress are conducted by American, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and Italian teams of archaeologists, with international participants, in cooperation with the Syrian Department of Antiquities.

Recent archaeological excavations have found fortifications in Mount Homon and La Carisa ( near the Huerna and Pajares valleys ) dated between the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth centuries.

Recent archaeological excavations have induced the notion of a vast Spanish-Indian alliance numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

Recent archaeological excavations in Greece suggest that modern-day Laconia was a distinct territory in the Late Bronze Age, while the poets narrate that it was a rich kingdom.

Recent archaeological excavations have revealed the ruins of a cabin in Hafnir on the Reykjanes peninsula ( close to Keflavík Airport ).

Recent excavations at the " Burnt City " in Iran showed that a similar game existed there around 3000 BC.

Recent excavations have revealed extensive Roman settlement ; the town lies alongside a Roman road.

Recent excavations on the Capitoline uncovered an early cemetery under the Temple of Jupiter.

Myers Wood: Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered the most complete iron working site in the North of England at Myers Wood.

Recent excavations suggest that at least the final stages of the battle took place farther northwest, at Kalkriese, north of Osnabrück.

Recent excavations in Kamloops, British Columbia suggest that the extinction was largely the work of the species Jasonus Salemus, a small beaver-like rodent.

Recent excavations have revealed the ruins of an early Byzantine basilica under an old Ottoman mosque in the old part of the city ( Panagia peninsula ).

Recent excavations of the Waldgirmes Forum show signs that a civilian Roman town was established there, which has been interpreted to mean that Romans and Germanic tribesmen were living in peace, at least for a while.

Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the eighteenth century BC.

Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the eighteenth century BC.

Recent excavations has uncovered several ancient graves, and the place has been turned into an archaeological site.

Recent site excavations yielded rusted cannonballs and other late 19th and early 20th century paraphernalia in caverns dug deep beneath the former Fort.

Recent archeological excavations and their association with the Golasecca culture of Northern Italy may point to a Celtic affiliation, although an amalgamation of Rhaetians ( who were partly of Etruscan-related origin ) may not be excluded.

Recent excavations by members of the Clan Donnachaidh Society within the now redundant church of Dull ( Gaelic Dul, ' meadow ', ' haugh ') failed to find evidence of this specific burial, although others were uncovered, along with early medieval carved stones.

Recent excavations on this mound indicate that the site is very old, perhaps dating back to the Vedic age.

Recent excavations near the pyramids led by Mark Lehner have uncovered a large city which seems to have housed, fed and supplied the pyramid workers.

Recent excavations in the Covent Garden area have uncovered an extensive Anglo-Saxon settlement, covering about, stretching from the present-day National Gallery site in the west to Aldwych in the east.

Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.

* Fouad Ajami, " The Humanist in the Alleys ", The New Republic, 25 September 2006, http :// www. sais-jhu. edu / programs / mideast / documents / Recent % 20Articles / Articles / The % 20Humanist % 20in % 20the % 20Alleys. pdf

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

Recent examples include Vice President Dick Cheney's whirlwind two-hour visit to collect $ 300, 000 in 2006 and Senator Barack Obama's somewhat longer three-hour trip in November, 2007 to collect $ 200, 000 Both refused to meet with the news media, press the flesh or meet with local politicians, inconceivable in Iowa or New Hampshire.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

Recent English-language spy films are The Bourne Identity ( 2002 ), Mission: Impossible ( 1996 ); Munich ( 2005 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The Constant Gardener ( 2005 ) and Casino Royale ( 2006 ), a relaunching of the James Bond series.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

Recent additions to the subgenre of the whodunit include the novels of Simon Brett, the Thackery Phin novels of John Sladek, Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ) ( which is a spoof set in the present in an English-style country house ), Kinky Friedman's Road Kill ( 1997 ), Ben Elton's Dead Famous ( 2001 ), and Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ( 2006 ).

Recent additions to Cyberjaya in 2006 includes the Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences which has recently opened for enrolment.

Recent examples are the blizzard of 2005 and the blizzard of 2006.

Recent ( c. 2006 ) commercial construction has continued to focus on Route 28, as well as on the commercial zone off Exit 2 on Interstate 93.

Recent infrastructure development has included a new Municipal Hall ( 2002 ), and state-of-the-art Waterville Public Library with formal gardens ( 2006 ).

" Recent major exhibitions at Vienna and Venice in 2004 and Washington in 2006, have given art historians further opportunities to see disputed works side by side ( see External links below ).

Recent acquisitions by Hormel Foods include: Century Foods International ( 2003 ) Clougherty Packing ( Farmer John ) ( 2004 ), Lloyd ’ s Barbeque ( 2005 ), Mark-Lynn Foods ( 2005 ), Arriba Foods ( 2005 ), Provena Foods ( 2006 ) and Burke Foods ( 2007 ).

Recent arrivals in the pageant include China ( 2002 ), Albania ( 2002 ), Vietnam ( 2004 ), Georgia ( 2004 ), Ethiopia ( 2004 ), Latvia ( 2005 ), Kazakhstan ( 2006 ), Tanzania ( 2007 ), and Kosovo ( 2008 ); there have also been efforts to revive strong national pageants in South Africa, Canada, Spain, Japan ; Latin America ( especially Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil ) among other regions.

Recent years have also included nominations for a ' Listener's Law ' ( which an MP agreed to sponsor as a parliamentary bill, although he did not support the winning nomination, which he thought was not appropriate ), and, in 2006, nominations were sought for the law that listeners would most like to see repealed.

Recent winners include California astrophysicist George F. Smoot, who later won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics.

In the magazine's current incarnation ( as of April 2006 ), a few longer reviews, usually written by well-known figures in the field of foreign policy, begin the section, followed by a subsection titled " Recent Books on International Relations " with shorter half-page-long reviews written by eminent academics.

Recent notable additions include riboswitches and miRNA, the discovery of the RNAi mechanism associated with the latter earned Craig C. Mello and Andrew Fire the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

* Wraight, Denzil ( 2006 ) " Recent approaches in understanding Cristofori's fortepiano ," Early Music 34: 635-644.

Recent examples have been the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the 2006 Israeli legislative election, the 2008 United States Presidential Election and the 2008 United Kingdom local elections.

Recent developments in U. S. trademark law have included the adoption of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 ( see Trademark dilution ), the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 ( see Trademark dilution ).