August 21st News

People are still chewing over yesterdays finds.

New stories as of 1:04 PM:

Medieval Program Receives Funding
The Daily Tar Heel
UNC's medieval and modern studies program has received a $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to hire new professors, fund research and host conferences and lectures...
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/08/21/University/Medieval.Program.Receives.Funding-2932989.shtml

Ancient Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Press TV
An archaeology student from the University of Derby has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum during an excavation in western Finland...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=20216&sectionid=3510212

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Finland
Mathaba News Agency
HELSINKI, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- British archaeology student Sarah Pickin has found a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum in western Finland, local media reported Monday...
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=561572

British Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum In Northern Finland
Helsingin Sanomat
What is believed to be a 5,000-year-old piece of chewing gum has been found in Finland by a British archaeology student, Sarah Pickin, the BBC reported on Monday...
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/British+student+finds+Neolithic+chewing+gum+in+Northern+Finland/1135229681112

Tuscan Hills Are Alive With Amateur Archaeologists
The New York Times
CASENOVOLE, Italy, Aug. 16 — The Etruscan tomb was hidden in such a remote corner of Tuscany that Andrea Marcocci, the archaeology student who found and identified it about a decade ago, was not very worried that anyone else would stumble upon it...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/design/21tomb.html?ref=arts

Stone Age Chewing Gum Found In Finland
Fox News
HELSINKI, Finland — Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293933,00.html

Scientists Find Ancient Gum In Finland
Sci-Tech Today
A piece of Neolithic gum was found among artifacts, like dishes and jewelry, in a Stone Age village at the Kierikki Stone Age Center. "It's somewhere between 5,500 and 6,000 years old," said Sami Viljamaa, an archaeologist who led the dig near Oulu, some 380 miles north of the Finland capital, Helsinki...
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100B0MB6IR

Tara Ruins Must Be Preserved - Report
Ireland.com
Newly discovered 2000-year-old ruins at the Hill of Tara must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, a US academic today said...
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0821/breaking46.htm

Egypt Footprint 'Could Be Oldest'
BBC News
Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered what might be the oldest human footprint ever found...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6956902.stm