August 27th News

It's a new week, so it should be interesting to see if there are any new stories to go with it.

New stories as of 1:30 PM:

'Lost City of Apollo' Discovered
The Times of India
LONDON/BUCHAREST: Renowned archaeologist Dennis Price, who shot to fame last year with his amazing discovery of Stonehenge's lost altar stone by a roadside in Berwick St James, has now claimed to have found the famed 'Lost City of Apollo' around the Neolithic structure...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lost_city_of_Apollo_discovered/articleshow/2316135.cms

Photo In The News: Ancient Olympic Site Saved From Fire
National Geographic News
August 27, 2007—Appearing to gasp for air through the smoke, a winged statue of victory stands surrounded by wildfires that nearly destroyed the site of the ancient Olympic Games in southwestern Greece...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070827-greece-fires.html

Could The Ancient Greeks Have Created The Scientific Revolution?
The Brussels Journal
This essay was inspired by a comment from blogger and TBJ-reader Conservative Swede, who once stated that the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions were the products of Greek logic and Roman engineering skills, and had little to do with Christianity...
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2370

Roman Footprint Found In Ancient City
Science Daily
HAIFA, Israel, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Archaeologists in Israel said they've discovered a footprint from the sandal of a Roman soldier during an excavation of the ancient city of Hippos...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070827-14054900-bc-israel-footprint-crn.xml

Beneath Alexandria
Courier-Journal
CAIRO, Egypt -- Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name amid his quest to conquer the world -- but his was apparently not the first city on the famed site on Egypt's Mediterranean coast...
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/FEATURES/708270372/1010/FEATURES

Professor Writes The Book On Study Of Medieval Manuscripts
UNM Today
Timothy Graham, the director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at UNM, and his collaborator Raymond Clemens, associate professor of History at Illinois State University, have literally written the book on medieval manuscript studies. Their volume, “Introduction to Manuscript Studies,” will be released during the fall by Cornell University Press...
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/002164.html

Prehistoric Greek Water Works Found
Yahoo News
ATHENS, Greece - Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_sc/greece_prehistoric_water_system_2;_ylt=AtNh9xKinb6pqHtcAIQ9A5tFeQoB

NOAA Vessel To Explore Undersea Unknown
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - Undersea explorer Robert Ballard leans back and smiles at the screens arrayed above his desk. One displays a view of a remote operating vessel, another scans along a seafloor never before viewed by humans...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_sc/ocean_explorer;_ylt=AnKqzaWBVQjuNQjpwEk08wdvieAA