During their third season, in January 2013, the archaeologists continue to investigate its character and sequence of development in order to record the earliest levels in the temple, which then can be assessed to preserve them for the future.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

The team this season will continue to excavate and survey other unsurveyed areas of the Sacred Garden in the South, in order to investigate the character and sequence of development, so that appropriate placing of pilgrim facilities may be made without damaging important archaeological resources.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

Although many of the genes encoding El Tor's pathogenic machinery were already known, the new sequence does reveal a number of unexpected metabolic pathways that may prove useful for drug development, according to Dr Mekalanos.

ECONOMIST: The cholera genome