June 12th News

The digital simulation of Rome is still the biggest story. Frankly, there are too many newspapers posting it for me to be able to link them all. I think though, that I've linked at least one copy of each version of the story over the past couple of days.

New stories as of 9:35 PM:

Water Stops Flowing For Rome's Fountains
Guardian Unlimited
Rome's most important fountains are drying up after the 2,000-year-old Roman-built underground aqueduct that supplies them was smashed by workmen laying foundations for a garage...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2101612,00.html


Back to Egypt's Sin City
MSNBC
Archaeologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students and researchers from Johns Hopkins University are back at the Temple of Mut, within Egypt's Luxor dig, to delve more deeply into the sex and booze of ancient times - and you can follow their exploits over the Web...
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/12/224088.aspx

New stories as of 4:10 PM:

La Lupa: Etruscan or Medieval
Wanted in Rome
In February a new book, a fine slim volume, stirred up a wasps’ nest of controversy. It is boldly called “The capitoline she-wolf. A mediaeval bronze.”...
http://www.wantedinrome.com/articles/complete_articles.php?id_art=737

New Stories as of 1:40 PM:

Italian Developer Planned To Build Over Ancient Temple Site
CBC.ca
Italian police have taken possession of a newly discovered ancient Greek temple in southern Italy after uncovering a developer's plot to build over the 2,000-year-old ruins...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/06/12/italy-temple-site.html

Staggering Price - $26.6 Million - For Ancient Sculpture At Sotheby's
Antiques and The Arts Online
In a hushed and standing-room-only salesroom at Sotheby's on June 7, auction history was made when an exquisite bronze figure of "Artemis and the Stag," circa First Century BC/First Century AD, sold for $28.6 million, immediately becoming the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction...
http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/AuctionWatch/2007-06-12__11-27-24.html

Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation To Web For A Second Time This Year; Online at
http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html
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For a second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her archaeological crew are sharing their work with the world. Online now is a special bonus season of their popular digital diary, a virtual window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig...
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20070612.111045&time=11%2024%20PDT&year=2007&public=0

Mycenaean Sword Cap Found In Thracian Sanctuary In Bulgaria
Novinite.com
Archaeologists have discovered Tuesday a Mycenaean bronze sword cap in an ancient Thracian sanctuary in Bulgaria...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81791

New stories as of 10:41 AM:

Italian Police Recover Ancient Temple
Houston Chronicle
ROME — Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4882581.html

Is This Chaucer's Astrolabe
News@nature.com
Want to see the astrolabe used for astronomical calculations by Geoffrey Chaucer himself? You'll be lucky, says Catherine Eagleton, a curator at the British Museum in London...
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070604/full/070604-12.html
This story is dated to June 8, but I only just found it today through the Archaeology.org site.

New stories as of 8:43 AM:

Powers Grad Part Of Team Bringing 'Iliad' To Web
Flint Journal
The newest thing on the World Wide Web soon will be a 1,000-year-old manuscript, thanks in part to a Powers Catholic High School graduate who is now an assistant professor of classics at Holy Cross College here...
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-44/1181656283111720.xml&coll=5


Take A Journey Around The Wonders of Antiquity
Times Online
If you dream of touring the great monuments of the Ancient World across the continents, one man is ready to be your guide...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article1921509.ece
This article is a review of the book Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome.

From Columns To Colosseum, Ancient Rome Relives In Digital Simulation
Canada.com
ROME (AP) - Rome's monuments may be crowded with tourists, crippled by time and damaged by pollution, but the glory days of this ancient imperial city are alive and well - inside a computer...
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/news/gizmos/story.html?id=593ceea7-0ba1-4264-8197-552ee8e76e5b&k=54135

Ancient Rome Brought Back To Life
Kazinform
Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation. An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10 years working on a real-time 3D model of the city called Rome Reborn...
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=152564
Also posted at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6743991.stm

Rome Rebuilt Simulation Program Digitally Recreates Ancient Rome In All Its Glory
Techshout.com
Rome- a culturally and historically rich place may always be crowded with tourists and its monuments battered by time and damaged by pollution; but the glory days of this ancient civilization are very much alive thanks to a bunch of computer experts.
http://www.techshout.com/software/2007/12/rome-rebuilt-simulation-program-digitally-recreates-ancient-rome-in-all-its-glory/

Rome Was Not Built In One Day; It Took 10 Years
Bits Of News
One of the greatest cities of the ancient world has been rebuilt using 3D computer graphics, for 10 years an international team of archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from the University of Virginia and UCLS, as well as research institutes in Italy, Germany and Britain have been working on “Rome Reborn”...
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5743/44/

Unique Archeology Findings Exhibited In Bulgaria
Novinite.com
The antique archaeology findings, that were unearthed in the temple of the Phrygian Goddess Cybele in Bulgaria, will be exhibited in the seaside town of Balchik...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81769

Scientists Rebuild Ancient Rome in 3D
Sci-Tech Today
The $2 million simulation of ancient Rome will be used by scientists to run experiments -- such as determining the crowd capacity of ancient buildings -- and as a scholarly journal that will be updated at each new discovery of one of Rome's marvels. Students and tourists can also use the program to learn about ancient Rome...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Scientists-Rebuild-Ancient-Rome-in-3D/story.xhtml?story_id=0300034NFYNI

Human Sacrifice: Early Hunter-Gatherers May Have
Xinhua
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists investigating graves from the Upper Paleolithic Period (about 26,000 to 8,000 B.C.) uncovered several that indicated Europe’s prehistoric hunter-gathers may have practiced human sacrifice...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/12/content_6232670.htm

Rhondda Castle Restored After 600 Years
NewsWales
After lying in ruins for 600 years the 13th century Llantrisant Castle is to be restored by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and Cadw, the Welsh body for Ancient Monuments...
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=11568

Excavations To Resume At Pardis Tepe
PressTV
Iranian and British archeologists have commenced the third phase of excavations at Iran's 7,000-year-old Pardis Tepe site in Tehran province...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12898&sectionid=351020105