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10/05/2010: Stonehenge boy was from the Mediterranean
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- Written by Nancy Kiser
Chemical tests on teeth from an ancient burial site near Stonehenge indicate that the boy in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea. He is known to archaeologists as the "Boy with the Amber Necklace" and he died about 3,550 years ago. What was he doing near Stonehenge in England? Click here to read more on this story in BBC News.