1.   ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that priceless information about the past has been lost in the severe storms which battered Orkney earlier this year.

2.   And for decades many archaeologists believed that those hunters were not only the first Americans, but the ones from which all other native American cultures descended.

3.   Archaeologists believe that most trading vessels in the time before the birth of Christ hugged the shoreline for safety.

4.   Archaeologists believe that it was a stamp seal, commonly used in ancient commerce to mark containers by their contents and ownership.

5.   Archaeologists believe they will uncover another mosaic when they clear the debris in the next few days.

6.   Archaeologists believe that prehistoric man, and later the Ute Indians, avoided the inner canyon, choosing instead to stick close to the rim.

7.   Most archaeologists believe the first humans crossed into the New World on a land bridge in the Bering Strait during the Ice Age.

8.   Some archaeologists believe that San Marcos Springs may be the oldest continually inhabited site in North America.

9.   State, federal and tribal archaeologists believe more skeletal bones will be found amid mounds of dirt piled at the site and a nearby landfill.

10.   Archaeologist believe the rebels also would take refuge in them if the Romans succeeded in entering the tunnels.