June 8th News

Yes, I'm a bit late off the mark today. I have no excuse other than that I just got an incredible book on Tolkien, the Hammond and Scull Reader's Guide And Chronology. Looks like there's lots of history news though.

New stories as of 9:22 PM:

Bodies From Viking Ships To Be Exhumed
ScienceDaily
OSLO, Norway, June 8 (UPI) -- Scientists in Norway plan to exhume three bodies found in the country's most famous Viking ship burials because they fear the remains may be disintegrating...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070608-22370100-bc-norway-vikings.xml

Global Warming Is The New Threat To History
Telegraph.co.uk
Human activity has become the greatest threat to our cultural heritage, according to the World Monuments Fund (WMF), which this week released its list of the world's 100 most endangered monuments...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/06/09/etthreats109.xml

Archaeologists Reconstruct Life In The Bronze Age At Site of Southern Spain
ScienceDaily
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

New stories as of 12:38 PM:

Ancient Bronze Fetches Record 28.6M US At Auction
CBC.ca
A 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture depicting Roman goddess Artemis fetched more than $28 million US in New York Thursday afternoon, setting several new records in the process...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/06/08/auction-bronze-artemis.html

Monuments Threatened By Global Warming
Casper Star Tribune
For centuries, Europe's monuments have withstood earthquakes, fire and plundering. Now cultural treasures from the Colosseum to Westminster Abbey could face new threats from climate change, a study says...
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/06/08/ap/international/d8pkpk7o2.txt
Also posted at
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/89-06082007-1360041.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/08/europe/EU-GEN-Climate-Change-Threatened-Monuments.php
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/119736.html

Life In Late Antiquity Featured In June Lecture Series At UW
University Of Wyoming
June 8, 2007 -- A free public talk by a visiting Yale University professor, "Romans, Greeks, Barbarians and Christians: Approaching the Late Roman Empire," is the first presentation in a June lecture series supported by the Wyoming Council for the Humanities (WCH) and the University of Wyoming Department of Modern and Classical Languages...
http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=15561

Viking Graves To Be Re-opened
Aftenposten
The Viking graves that contained the famous ships Oseberg and Gokstad will be re-opened in September, in an effort to gain new knowledge from the remains of the two women and one man buried in them...
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1826974.ece

Archaeologists Discover Iron Age Mickey Mouse
The Local
Swedish archaeologists have uncovered signs of a Viking precursor to Mickey Mouse. Among the objects found during excavations at Uppåkra in southern Sweden is an iron age figure bearing a strong resemblance to the classic cartoon character...
http://www.thelocal.se/7544/20070608/