News articles for May 29

It's a pretty wide spread of stories today. However, it looks like the new Acropolis Museum is the big story.

New stories as of 6:15 PM:

Acropolis Marbles To Move
SMH.com.au
Greece unveiled details today of a giant operation to relocate hundreds of priceless marble sculptures from the ancient Acropolis in Athens to a new museum slated to open later this year...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/acropolis-marbles-to-move/2007/05/30/1180205289373.html
Also at:
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=nw20070529222020327C822933

History At Risk From Erosion By The Sea
News.scotsman.com
KEY coastal sites which tell the story of Scotland's ancient past are in danger of being washed away, experts warned yesterday...
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=840532007

New stories as of 4:40 PM:

Acropolis Museum To Open Early 2008
News.com.au
AFTER years of delays, Greece's new Acropolis Museum will open its gates to the public in early 2008, giving new impetus to efforts to bring home the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum.http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,21818937-27977,00.html

New stories as of 3:00 PM:

Everything is Somewhere: World's Oldest Map
The American Surveyor
Maps are older than writing and are possibly older than language; certainly it is easier to picture an Australopithecine gent scratching an arrow in the dust, pointing to good hunting grounds, than it is to imagine him giving clear verbal directions - the latter is not so common even today...
http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/3675/
Included in this article is a link to a PDF which includes all the images which the article contains. This is fascinating.

Greece Prepares To Move Acropolis Marbles
CBC.ca
The 300 marble statues that have graced the Acropolis for the last 2,500 years will soon be leaving their ancient site...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/05/29/acropolis-statues.html

News as of 1:45 PM:

Acropolis Sculptures Headed To New Site
Miami Herald

ATHENS, Greece -- 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://www.miamiherald.com/776/story/122214.html
Also at:
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-0/1180467697280950.xml&storylist=international

News as of 11:15 AM:

Acropolis Sculptures To Be Moved To New Museum
International Herald Tribune
ATHENS, Greece: Three hundred marble sculptures that have survived on the Acropolis in Athens through 2,500 years of war, weather and looting, will soon be moved to a new museum, Greek officials said Tuesday...
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Acropolis-Museum.php

Reserved Seating System Exists In Every Age
Turkish Daily News
This year’s excavations in the ancient city of Assos shows that three occupation groups, blacksmiths, stone masons and leather traders, had the luxury to sit in places specially reserved for them during the activities such as festivals, ceremonies and entertainment activities held in the ancient theater...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=74206

Cauldron Discovered In Bog
The Mayo News
A ROUTINE day cutting turf on the bog ended in a significant discovery for Louisburgh farmer Owen McNally last week, when he unearthed a perfectly intact 2,500-year-old Iron Age cauldron...
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1666&Itemid=38

Subway Dig Unearths Rome's Ancient Past
NPR
It's been centuries since archaeologists excavated Rome's central Piazza Venezia, but just a few hundred yards from the Roman Forum, skeletons of the city's past are surfacing...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10365638
For the complete story, click the 'Listen' button. This one's a bit of an 'oops' on my part. It's actually from the weekend and I missed it.