June 21 News

There's an interesting span of stories today.

New stories as of 10:36 PM:

Archaeologist Says Holy Grail Is In Rome
ScienceDaily
ROME, June 21 (UPI) -- An Italian archeologist says the Holy Grail -- a cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper -- is buried beneath a church in Rome...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070622-00491500-bc-italy-holygrail.xml
Also posted at:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/06/22/archeologist_says_holy_grail_is_in_rome/1901/

Sudan's Ancient Gold Industry And Graves Unearthed
ShortNews
Archaeologists uncovered a huge ancient gold processing centre and 90 graveyards 225 miles north of Khartoum (Sudanese capital) in the region of Hosh el-Geruf. The buildings date back 4,000 years to the Kush/ Nubian kingdom...
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63180

New stories as of 5:42 PM:

Holy Grail 'Buried Under Rome Church'
thewest.com
An archaeologist has sparked a Da Vinci Code-style hunt for the Holy Grail after claiming ancient records show it is buried under a 6th century church in Rome...
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=27&ContentID=32107
Interesting. This sounds like the sorts of claims made in books such as The Second Messiah, which seem to be on the sensational side of scholarly. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of the claim.

New Stories as of 4:14 PM:

Ancient Marble Fragment Returns To Greece
United Press International
ATHENS, Greece, June 21 (UPI) -- A Danish family has returned to Greece a fragment of a Greek marble relief the family has owned for more than a century, Greek officials said Thursday...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/06/21/ancient_marble_fragment_returns_to_greece/7103/

New stories as of 12:35 PM:

Fragment of Ancient Marble Returned
Athens News Agency
A fragment of an ancient Greek marble relief was returned to Greece on Thursday by a Danish family that had owned it for over a century...
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=5454496&maindocimg=5453511&service=100

New stories as of 10:46 AM:

Archaeologists Find Ancient Egypt's Gold Source
Xinhua
BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhuanet) -- An ancient gold-processing and panning camp has been discovered by archaeologists along the Nile River about 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) south of Cairo that is thought to be the first physical evidence of where Egypt obtained its vast gold resources...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/21/content_6274072.htm

Isthmia: City of Elusive Ancient Greece
Spero News
Massive column drums and blocks are still conspicuous in the walls of the late antique fortress that guarded the Isthmus, and early travellers imagined that the temple and its precinct lay inside the walls. In the 1930s, the British archaeologist RJH Jenkins and his young architect, H. Megaw, set out to test the prevailing theory...
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=155&id=10016&t=Isthmia%3A+city+of+elusive+ancient+Greece

Riddle of the Bog
Guardian Unlimited
A single brown fingernail lies on the leather bag of his chest, which tapers to nothing where the peat-cutting machine chopped him in two. His arm lies next to him, but these fragments of a body would mean nothing, were it not for the look on his face. A face that is 2,000 years old is not expected to have a "look". Death destroys individuality - but not his...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2107854,00.html

Longtime Getty Staffer Named Antiquities Curator
Los Angeles Times
Karol Wight, a 22-year veteran of the J. Paul Getty Museum, was named its antiquities curator Wednesday. She succeeds her beleaguered former boss, Marion True, whose job she has held on an acting basis since True's resignation under fire in October 2005...
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-et-getty21jun21,1,6541319.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=5&cset=true

To Be Proofread: Ancient Gold Refinery Discovered Along The Nile
The Epoch Times
Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing centre that is believed to have been in operation sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC...
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-21/56696.html

Of Bricks And Boats
Al-Ahram Weekly
Archaeologists from the Katholicke Universiteit Leuven working at the Middle-Kingdom (2066-1650 BC) tomb of Uky, a top government official, have discovered an intact tomb chamber, complete with funerary goods...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/850/he1.htm

TV Team's Glittering Discovery At Castle
Derbyshire Times
TV archaeologists who carried out a dig at an historic Amber Valley ruin have found that there could have been THREE different castles on the site...
http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/alfreton?articleid=2971652

First Day Of Exploration Brings Archaeologists In Bulgaria Important Find
Sofia Echo
During their first day of exploration in the Vratsa region, archaeologists found an important artifact...
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/first-day-of-exploration-brings-archaeologists-in-bulgaria-important-find/id_23285/catid_70

Museum's 'Copper Age' Exhibit To Lay The Roots To Dead Sea Scrolls Show
NCTimes.com
One of the most magical moments in man's history is when he learned to transform rock into metal, in essence creating a whole new material. That's the basis of a new exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Man...
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/06/20/entertainment/art/202007110227.txt