May 30th News About History

I suspect there will be a number of stories about the new Acropolis Museum today. However, there are a large number of other stories as well.

New articles as of 5:40 PM:

Greek Treasures Get A Lift To Their New Home
TimesOnline
Hundreds of marble sculptures that have survived heat, pollution and looters on the Acropolis in Athens will be swung over the city, using special cranes, to a new museum complex...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article1862390.ece

New articles as of 1:50 PM:

Human Sacrifice Clues Found In Stone Age Burials
National Geographic News
Common Stone Age graves in Europe that include the remains of physically disabled people hint at ritual human sacrifice there, a new study says...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070530-sacrifice-burial.html

New articles as of 11:50 AM:

Acropolis Museum Artifacts To Be Moved
Imedinews
ATHENS, Greece, May 30 (UPI) — The painstaking transfer of artifacts from a small museum atop the Acropolis in central Athens to their new, state-of-the-art home will begin in the fall...
http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/42632
All the measurements in this article are in feet, rather than meters.

New articles as of 10 AM:

Acropolis Statues Going To New Museum
Los Angeles Times
The Acropolis sculptures survived on the ancient hill in Athens for 2,500 years despite war, weather and looting. But their remaining days there are numbered...
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-greece30may30

Acropolis Artifacts On Move
Kathimerini
The three largest lifting cranes in Europe will be employed to help move artifacts from the Parthenon to the New Acropolis Museum in September, it was revealed yesterday...
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100043_30/05/2007_83898

Acropolis Sculptures To Be Moved Into New Museum
Monsters and Critics
Athens - More than 300 sculptures currently housed on the ancient Acropolis are due to be moved into a new museum by September, Greek officials said Wednesday...
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1311133.php/Acropolis_sculptures_to_be_moved_into_new_museum

King Herod's Return
Los Angeles Times
AFTER 2,000 YEARS of indignity and ignominy, Herod the Great has finally gotten his revenge...
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-reich30may30,1,4216461.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=2&cset=true
The politicization of a major discovery. It's a different look at the discovery of King Herod's tomb a couple of weeks ago.

Burnt City's Artificial Eyeball Presented In Rome
Cultural Heritage News Agency
Tehran, 30 May 2007 (CHN Foreign Desk) – As the first lecturer in exhibition of Beauties of Iran, Five Millennia of History which inaugurated on 21^st of May in Rome’s Oriental Arts Museum, Dr. Mansour Sajadi, head of archeological excavations in Burnt City gave a speech on the latest achievements of the discovered artificial eyeball in Burnt City during which he explained about the details of this unique discovery which according to archeologists is one of the magic of the ancient world...
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7164

Acropolis Museum Artifacts To Be Moved
EARTHtimes.org
ATHENS, Greece, May 30 The painstaking transfer of artifacts from a small museum atop the Acropolis in central Athens to their new, state-of-the-art home will begin in the fall...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/67627.html

Scottish Archaeological Sites Threatened
Monsters and Critics
ST.ANDREWS, Scotland (UPI) -- Experts say major archaeological sites on the Scottish coast are in danger of being washed away as sea levels rise.
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1310996.php/Scottish_archaeological_sites_threatened

Exhibition of Early Christian Crosses
The Irish Times
An exhibition bringing together six plaster cast replicas of Irish high crosses at the National Museum is launched officially today...
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0530/breaking1.htm

Unique Archaeological Find
Sveriges Radio International
Archaeologists in Stockholm are claiming to have made a unique find, after unearthing a child’s skeleton believed to date from the eleventh century...
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=1396784
The article is very short, but has a large photo of the dig site.


Archaeologists Find Skeleton of Eleventh Century Child
The Local Sweden's News In English
Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a child aged two to four during excavations at Täby kyrkby to the north of Stockholm. The remains found inside a wooden coffin are thought to date back to the eleventh century...
http://www.thelocal.se/7449/20070530/