June 6th News Stories

Quite a range of new stories.

New stories as of 7:00 PM:

What Gladiators Were Really Like
Cosmos
The discovery of the first confirmed collection of gladiator remains has allowed scientists to apply forensic analysis - such as seen in television dramas like CSI, except with real science and not just fluorescent sprays and swabs - to bones, providing startling new evidence of just how gladiators lived and died...
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1369

Travel Agents Association To Restore Ancient Theater At Telmessos
Today's Zaman
The Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TÜRSAB), responding to concerns of its members and local government, has agreed to take steps to preserve the ancient theater at Telmessos, which has fallen into a state of disrepair.
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=113374

82,000-Year-Old Beads Found In Morocco
MSNBC
RABAT, Morocco - Perforated shells discovered in a limestone cave in eastern Morocco are the oldest adornments ever found and show humans used symbols in Africa 40,000 years before Europe, the kingdom’s government said...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071731/

New stories as of 11:33 AM:

Satellites Reveal Site of Ancient Egyptian City
ChinaView
BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Recent digging has confirmed the site of a 1,600-year-old metropolis 200 miles south of Cairo that was first spotted by satellites hovering over Egypt, archaelogists say...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/06/content_6205605.htm


Tablets Tell All: Ancient Atheletes Flogged For Sins
The Age
AN ANCIENT training manual for Roman athletes — carved in marble almost 2000 years ago — prescribes far worse punishments than a sending off or a week's docked pay if they performed badly in the Colosseum...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/ancient-athletes-flogged-for-sins/2007/06/06/1181089151990.html

Mystery of 5,000 Year Old Glacier Mummy Solved
EurekaAlert
An Italian-Swiss research team, including Dr. Frank Rühli of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Zurich in Switzerland proved the cause of death of the Iceman (“Ötzi,” 3300 BC) by modern X-ray-based technology...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/e-mo5060607.php

Hill of Tara in World's Top 100 Endangered Heritage Sites
u.tv
Ireland's ancient Hill of Tara, once the seat of the high kings, was today named one of the world's 100 most endangered heritage sites...
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=82750&pt=n

Archaeologists Reconstruct Life In The Bronze Age At A Site of Southern Spain
Science Daily
Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the Universidad de Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070605121009.htm

Iceman Bled To Death
Cay Compass
More than 5,000 years after the prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi drew his last breath on a snow–covered Alpine mountain, scientists said Wednesday they have determined how he died...
http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1022699

Spanish Archaeologists Reconstruct Bronze Age Life In La Mancha
Daily India
Archaeologists from the Group of Recent Prehistoric Studies (GEPRAN) of the Universidad de Granada, Spain, have reconstructed for the first time, in a scientific and systematic way, life in the Bronze Age in the site of La Motilla del Azuer, La Mancha (Spain)...
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/147161.php/Spanish-archaeologists-reconstruct-Bronze-Age-life-in-La-Mancha