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Europe's oldest wooden staircase found in Austria Tue Oct 12, 1:05 PM ET Science - AFP VIENNA (AFP) - A 3,000-year-old wooden staircase has been found at Hallstatt in northern Austria, immaculately preserved in a Bronze Age salt mine, Vienna's Natural History Museum said. "We have found a wooden staircase which dates from the 13th century B.C. It is the oldest wooden staircase discovered to date in Europe, maybe even in the world," Hans Reschreiter, the director of excavations at the museum, told AFP. "The staircase is in perfect condition because the micro-organisms that cause wood to decompose do not...

US convinced Europe's Nazis are on march again By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 30/05/2002) The belief that there has been a recent upsurge in anti-Semitism in Europe is now so entrenched in America that denying it is almost seen as akin to suggesting the Holocaust did not happen. Parallels between early 21st century Europe and the Nazi era are being drawn almost daily by American politicians and newspapers across the political spectrum. By bracketing the past and present so firmly, Americans are expressing their deep discomfort at what they see as an enduring continental European hostility to outsiders. There...