June 29th News

It's a mixed bag today. Medieval, Viking, Roman, Greek, Egyptian. There's stories from all of them today.

New stories as of 7:40 PM:

Antiquities Dealer Questions Authenticity Of Metropolitan Museum's Chariot
CultureGirl
While we breathlessly await today's repatriation press conference by Signor Rutelli, let's talk about another Italian object-of-desire, the Metropolitan Museum's Etruscan chariot. (It was claimed not by Italy, but by the village of Monteleone di Spoleto.)...
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2007/06/antiquities_dealer_rains_on_me.html

New stories as of 5:22 PM:

Chance To Dig Up History
The Cumberland News
VOLUNTEERS who don’t mind getting down and dirty can see what the Lake District looked like 4,000 years ago on a special archaeological dig over the next few weeks...
http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=515379

New stories as of 2:24 PM:

Secret Of The Etruscans Revealed
Wanted In Rome
Theories as to the origin of the ancient Etruscan civilization, which flourished from roughly 800 BC, or even earlier, until its final domination by Rome in 100 BC, have fired the imagination of historians for millennia...
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=3360

Egyptian Archaeologists Identify Remains of Hatshepsut, Female Pharaoh
About.com
According to news reports, Egyptian archaeologists have identified the remains of Egypt's female Pharaoh, Hatshepsut. The announcement came from the Cairo Museum on Wednesday, June 27...
http://womenshistory.about.com/b/a/257540.htm

New stories as of 11:44 AM:

Pope Approves Examination Of St. Paul's Tomb
Catholic World News
Rome, Jun. 29, 2007 (Kath.net/CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has approved an examination of the tomb of St. Paul, located in the Roman basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, the Kath.net news service reports...
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52096

Medieval Irish Goes Online As New Electronic Dictionary Is Launched
University of Ulster
A new electronic dictionary of medieval Irish was launched this week at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin...
http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2007/3265.html

Ancient Island Settlement Rebuilt
BBC News
An ancient Shetland settlement at risk of crumbling into the sea has been rebuilt - despite fears that it will soon be eroded...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6253096.stm

Orpheus Tomb Discovered?
News.bg
The sensational discovery was made by an archaeological expedition which investigated the temple of the Thracians near the village of Tatul, informed BNT...
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1942829985

Treasure Hunters Uncovered Statue and Coins in Nove, Northern Bulgaria
Focus Information Agency
Treasure-hunters have uncovered a statue and coins in ancient town Nove, close to Sishtov, northern Bulgaria, a journalist of Radio FOCUS – Veliko Tarnovo reported...
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n116017

The Return Of The Viking Warship
BBC News
On Sunday, 65 men and women will embark on one of the most ambitious, dangerous and important experimental archaeology projects ever undertaken...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6248978.stm

Back In The Limelight
Al-Ahram News
More than 300 foreign and Egyptian journalists, TV crews, photographers, Egyptologists and scientists gathered in front of the Egyptian Museum hoping for a glimpse of the mummy of Egypt's best known female ruler, Hatshepsut...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/851/eg11.htm