August 6th News

And, they're all new stories today. Nothing seems to carry over from last week.

New stories as of 5:53 PM:

Sixth-Century Mosaic Floor Discovered Near Palmahim
Haaretz
A floor mosaic dating back to the sixth century, depicting trees and fruit baskets, was uncovered this week at the Yavneh-Yam archaeological site near Kibbutz Palmahim. The floor, discovered during excavations by Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, decorated the dining room of a Byzantine villa, containing unbroken pottery...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/890525.html

New stories as of 11:17 AM:

Colossal Statue Of The Emperor Hadrian Discovered
Huliq
A huge, exquisitely carved marble statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian is the latest find from Sagalassos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. Archaeologists estimate that the figure was originally between 13 and 16 feet in height (four to five meters)...
http://www.huliq.com/29371/colossal-statue-of-the-emperor-hadrian-discovered

Metropolitan Museum Presents Egyptian Metal Statuary
Huliq
Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 16, 2007, Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples is the first exhibition ever devoted to these fascinating yet enigmatic works...
http://www.huliq.com/29396/metropolitan-museum-presents-egyptian-metal-statuary

Archaeologists Discover 8-Million-Year-Old Forest In Hungary
Sawf News
BUKKABRANY, Hungary (AFP) - "The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified," Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum who oversaw the excavation, told AFP...
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/40877.aspx

8-Million-Year-Old Forest Wows Archaeologists
Discovery News
Aug. 6, 2007 — Archaeologists have found an eight-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilized, in northeastern Hungary...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/06/ancientforest_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070806100030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

The Lost Queen
Egypt Today
Hatshepsut Khenmet-Amun (the United of Amun in Front of the Nobles) was quite a woman. The second-known woman to rule Egypt, she became co-regent, along with her young stepson, after her husband and half-brother Thutmose II died in 1504 BC. The arrangement lasted just two years before Hatshepsut claimed the title of Pharaoh for her own...
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7611

Ancient Croatian Port City Saved Form 13-Mile Wide Wild Fire
AHN
Dubrovnik, Croatia (AHN) - Firefighters managed to save Dubrovnik, Croatia from wildfires that had threatened the historic 7th century port city. A state of emergency had been declared Sunday night as a 13-mile wide line of forest fires fanned by heavy winds blazed toward the suburbs outside the ancient city on the Adriatic...
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008117543