News Stories for July 5th

The crabs have yet to scuttle back under a rock. There's lots of other news as well.

New stories as of 11:52 AM:

Discovery Of Oldest Human Decorations -- Thought To Be 82,000 Years Old
Physorg.com
Archaeologists have discovered shell beads believed to be 82,000 years old – making them the oldest dated human decorations...
http://www.physorg.com/news100272567.html

New stories as of 11:10 AM:

"Ancient" Crabs Live On in Roman Ruins
Kazinform
The Roman crabs—of the species Potamon fluviatile—were discovered in in 1997. Recent findings from an ongoing genetic study suggest the animals may have been around for more than a thousand years before the ancient complex was completed, around A.D. 112...
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=152247

Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D
Wired
After a thousand years stuck on a dusty library shelf, the oldest copy of Homer's Iliad is about to go into digital circulation...
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan

Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space
LiveScience
Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say...
http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html

History Goes High Tech
The Berkshire Eagle Online
PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Museum's mummy was placed under wraps yesterday to take a trip to the hospital...
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_6063034
This story includes several good photos of the mummy.

Beads Confirm Ancient Jewelry Making
Natural History Museum
Ancient beads dating to about 82,000 years ago have been uncovered in a limestone cave in Morocco...
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/june/news_11808.html

Pembroke Medieval Walls Safeguarded
NewsWales
Pembroke's town walls are to be safeguarded for the future.
Sections in a poor state are to be repaired and protected in a programme of work likely to last several years...
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Environment&F=1&id=11532

Ancient Egyptian Tomb Discovered
Afrol News
A Dutch mission from Leiden Museum last week came across a huge tomb that dates back to the era of King Akhenaton, the 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, some 3,400 years ago...
http://www.afrol.com/articles/25623

Bridging London's Lost Centuries
BBC News
Two very different finds, dug up close to each other by Trafalgar Square, shine new light on the greatest puzzle of London archaeology - the "silent" centuries after Roman rule...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6700149.stm