June 16th News Stories

It's a slow start today. Maybe there'll be more stories later.

New stories as of 5:17 PM:

Roman London's Painted Walls
50Connect.co.uk
One of the best collections of Roman painted wall plaster from London has been discovered on a site on Lime Street, on the edge of Leadenhall Market, in the City of London by the Museum of London Archaeology Service...
http://50connect.co.uk/index.asp?main=http%3A//50connect.co.uk/50c/articlepages/genealogy_index.asp%3Fsc%3Dhist%26aID%3D16074

New stories as of 3:25 PM:

Ancient Etruscans Were Immigrants From Anatolia, or What Is Now Turkey
EurekaAlert
Nice, France: The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turin, Italy, will say that there is overwhelming evidence that the Etruscans, whose brilliant civilisation flourished 3000 years ago in what is now Tuscany, were settlers from old Anatolia (now in southern Turkey)...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/esoh-aew061307.php


New stories as of 9:45 AM:

Ancient Coffin With Scenes From Homer's Poems Unearthed
Hindustan Times
A 2,500-year-old stone coffin with well-preserved colour illustrations from Homer's epics has been discovered in western Cyprus, archaeologists said...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=f798b56b-0f3f-4252-8922-3712c8510168&ParentID=09ddb4f2-764b-4c70-bf4a-ed95fb0b91b1&MatchID1=4469&TeamID1=2&TeamID2=4&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1110&PrimaryID=4469&Headline=Coffin+with+scenes+from+Homer's+poems+found

Mysterious 120 Codes In Hagia Sophia Have Been Solved
Turkish Daily News
One of the masterpieces of history of art and the world of architecture, Hagia Sophia was restored many times but the last research unrevealed a big secret, which lies on the marbles...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=75988

Workers Find Human Bones
Shropshire Star
Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of four people underneath the site of Shrewsbury’s new £28 million theatre complex, it was revealed today...
http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/06/workers-find-human-bones/