May 14th News

We start with more from the museums. News about well known sites in Rome follows, as well as articles about some new discoveries. Not to mention a book review. Not really being a fan of the Da Vinci Code, I don't know if I'd try the book in question, but I did find the Divine Comedy to be interesting, and this novel appears to have more of a connection with that, and with Roman History.

New articles as of 7:oo PM:

Book Review: The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi
Blogcritics.org
Matilde Asensi’s novel, The Last Cato, deals with the ancient icons of The True Cross, the first Christian Emperor Constantine and his mother, Helena, Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio and Dante’s pagan protector of Purgatory’s terraces, Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis (95 BC–46 BC), also known as Cato the Younger, from which the title is derived...
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/14/203600.php


New articles as of 4:50 PM:

Underwater Cameras Proposed as Alternative to Save Allaioni
Today's Zaman
An elaborate underwater camera system has been proposed to show tourists and history buffs the relics of the Alliaoni spa in the Bergama district of İzmir, a site in danger of being submerged by the Yortanlı Dam...
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=111240

Seljuk-era Wall Reliefs Unearthed at Aspendos
Today's Zaman
The southern walls of Antalya's historic Aspendos Ancient Theater have been discovered to be decorated with motifs from the Seljuk period, specialists said over the weekend...
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=111185

New articles as of 3:20 PM:

Mystery Solved: How Alexander The Great Defeated Tyre
LiveScience
No man is an island, but it turns out all Alexander the Great needed to take over an entire island was a little help from Mother Nature...
http://www.livescience.com/history/070514_tyre_bridge.html

How Geology Came to Help Alexander the Great
nature.com
Historians need not be quite so impressed by Alexander the Great's defeat of the island of Tyre in 332BC...
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/070514-2.html


New articles as of 10:10 AM:

Little Hope Remains For Carted Off Antiquities
The Guardian
In the last couple of weeks letters have been sent to most of the world's major museums asking for the return of Egyptian artifacts to their homeland, bringing the decades-long debate over repatriation back into the headlines...
http://ucsdguardian.org/viewarticle.php?story=opinion03&year=2007&month=05&day=14


Cracks Threaten Rome's Majesty
BBC News
The Emperor Augustus said he found Rome a city of brick - and he left it a city of marble. But 2,000 years on, the cracks in his legacy are beginning to show...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6654305.stm

Metal Detector Strikes it Lucky
Mansfield Today News
IT WAS a case of beginner's luck for a Tuxford man who found a pristine Iron Age brooch just months after joining the Warsop Metal Detector Society...
http://www.ollertontoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2875096&sectionid=722

Lodes of Importance
Cambridge Evening News
ANCIENT waterways which have brought pleasure to generations of Cambridgeshire residents are under threat, a campaigner fears...
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/newmarket/2007/05/14/ea6710d7-e40f-479a-aa97-4f34b1fe96a1.lpf

Experts Study Artefacts Discovered During Pipeline Excavation
kentnews.co.uk
Ancient artefacts discovered during excavations along an 11km pipeline route are now being studied in the laboratory...
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Experts-study-artefacts-discovered-during-pipeline-excavation-newsinkent3790.aspx

Roman Woman Had Golden Smile
Discovery Channel
The earliest known dental prosthesis from ancient Rome may not have been very functional, but it gave its wealthy wearer a million dollar smile...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/14/dentures_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070514123030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

Work Starts To Explore Silbury Hill
uktv
Archaeologists are carrying out investigations at mysterious Silbury Hill in Wiltshire to uncover its secrets...
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587771

Precious Zeguma Mosaics On Display At Symposium
Turkish Daily News
A symposium will be held in Gaziantep to attract the attention of world’s leading mosaic experts to Zeugma mosaics, unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Zeugma...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72895