July 11th News

Again, the news spans the world more or less. Lots from the UK and Egypt today. The dispute between Italy and the Getty is also something to keep an eye on.

New stories as of 8:45 PM:

Babylon Clay Tablet Confirms Jeremiah
Catholic News
In a find hailed as a breakthrough for biblical archaeology, an Austrian scholar has discovered that a cuneiform clay tablet from the time of Nebuchadnezzar found on the site of biblical Babylon names a government official who is identified in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah...
http://www.cathnews.com/news/707/69.php

New stories as of 3:19 PM:

Fisherman Blamed For Wreck Damage
Times Online
PRAWLE POINT A careless lobster fisherman is being blamed for damaging the site of one Britain’s earliest known shipwrecks...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2062032.ece

New news as of 12:23 PM:

Arcadians Were First Inhabitants of Paphos
The Queens Gazette
Love. Aphrodite. These words conjure the image of Paphos, Cyprus, where Aphrodite, goddess of love, was born from the sea foam. The famed and widely acclaimed Temple of Aphrodite is located there...
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2007/0711/features/032.html

Italy Issues Ultimatum
Il Velino
Rome, 11 lug (Velino) - Italy has threatened the J. Paul Getty Museum with a complete cultural boycott if it fails to resolve a dispute over the return of allegedly looted antiquities by the end of this month. The ultimatum was issued on Tuesday by Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli during a visti to Fano, a port in the northeastern Adriatic where one of the disputed artworks came to light in 1964...
http://www.ilvelino.it/articolo.php?Id=386330

Italy Issues Getty Ultimatum for Return Of Works
Calendarlive
Italy's culture minister issued an ultimatum to the J. Paul Getty Museum on Tuesday: The Getty has until the end of July to strike a deal over the return of more than 40 ancient artifacts Italy considers looted, or face "a real embargo" that would prevent the Getty from receiving loans of Italian art, and suspend the government's collaboration in Getty research and conservation projects in Italy...
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-gettyitaly11jul11,0,4536219.story?coll=cl-art-features

Italy Threatens Sanctions Against Museum
Washington Post
ROME -- Italy's culture minister said Tuesday that he has sent the J. Paul Getty Museum a proposal to resolve a dispute over allegedly looted antiquities, and threatened the Los Angeles museum with sanctions if a deal is not reached by the end of this month...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001038.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/entertainmentnews

DuPont Safety Glass Enables Viewing Of Roman Tombs
Glass On Web
A piece of ancient Roman history in northern Italy can now be viewed within its architectural context, thanks to DuPont(TM) SentryGlas(R)(TM) Expressions(TM) decorative safety glass...
http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/6261/

Egypt's Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old
National Geographic News
Rock face drawings and etchings recently rediscovered in southern Egypt are similar in age and style to the iconic Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain, archaeologists say...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-egypt-artwork.html

Austrian Academic Discovers Name of Babylon King Nebuchadnezzar II's Chief Eunuch
Daily India
London, July 11: An Austrian professor has probably made the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, that too in the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds a collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years...
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/156372.php/Austrian-academic-discovers-name-of-Babylon-King-Nebuchadnezzar-IIs-chief-eunuch

Uphill Battle To Save Tara
The Irish Post
CLASSED as one of Ireland's most venerated prehistoric treasures, the Hill of Tara has been immortalised in Irish folklore for centuries...
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story.asp?j=5952&cat=news

London: Tiny Tablet Provides Proof For Old Testament
Virtue Online
The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years. A fragment of cuneiform - Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament...
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6318

British Museum Makes Important Breakthrough In Biblical Archaeology
24 Hour Museum
An expert working at the British Museum has confirmed the existence of an important Biblical figure after deciphering a cuneiform inscription on a small Babylonian clay tablet...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART48827.html

Ancient Document Confirms Existence Of Biblical Figure
The New York Sun
LONDON — The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum's great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years....
http://www.nysun.com/article/58185

Unearthing Henge Of The North-East
The Northern Echo
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered what could be the henge of the North-East. Thousands of years before Durham Cathedral took shape, settlers could have worshipped on a nearby hill because experts from Tyne and Wear Museums have found evidence of continuous settlement on the site from 3,000BC to 300BC by stone age, bronze age and iron age man...
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1529428.mostviewed.unearthing_henge_of_the_northeast.php

Unearthing History At 'Prehistoric Glastonbury'
The Northern Echo
STONE Age Britons from across the North-East flocked to a prehistoric "Glastonbury festival" marked by mysterious rituals, a major archaeological discovery suggests...
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1532353.mostviewed.unearthing_history_at_prehistoric_glastonbury.php

Bronze Age Serpent Sparks UK Road Row
Perth Now
THE discovery of a 4000-year-old stone monument that has lain forgotten for generations under farmland on the English border with Wales has sparked a major row between residents and the local council...
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22060502-5005361,00.html
Also posted at:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22060502-5005962,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22060502-5005961,00.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1180959920070711

Segeford Dig Unearths Historic Village
Lynn News
A TEASING glimpse of life in Anglo-Saxon Sedgeford has been unearthed by archaeologists who believe they have discovered evidence of one of the village's earliest settlements...
http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news?articleid=3023371

Mysterious Mummy In King Tut's Burial Chamber Identified As Boy Pharaoh's Father
Daily India
Washington, July 11: Egyptologists claim to have uncovered new evidence that indicates that the mysterious mummy discovered a century back in tomb KV 55, less than 100 feet from the King Tutankhamun's hidden burial chamber, is actually the copse of the boy Pharaoh's father, Akhenaten...
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/156266.php/Mysterious-mummy-in-King-Tuts-burial-chamber-identified-as-boy-pharaohs-father
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http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/39812.aspx

Sedgeford Dig Unearths Historic Village
EDP 24
It might seem like the height of decadence, but our ancestors from 1,200 years ago must have dined on oysters nearly every day judging by the amount of shells they left behind...
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED10%20Jul%202007%2021%3A12%3A38%3A750

Waqf Temple Mount Excavation Raises Archaeologists' Protests
Haaretz
The Waqf Muslim religious trust is digging a ditch from the northern side of the Temple Mount compound to the Dome of the Rock as a prelude to infrastructure work in the area, generating protests from archaeologists...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/880761.html

Photo Gallery: Who Was King Tut's Father?
National Geographic News
July 10, 2007—After setting off to solve the mystery of Nefertiti—Egypt's best known royal wife—researchers instead found evidence supporting the theory that a mystery mummy may be the powerful pharaoh who some experts believe is the father of the famous King Tut. (Read full news story.)...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleries/tut-pictures/index.html