September 25th News

There's lots of news today, ranging from some new discoveries in the tomb of Tutankhamun to the ongoing dispute between Italy and the Getty museum.

New stories as of 10:57 AM:

The Getty Museum's Strained Italian Relationship
The Globe And Mail
California's J. Paul Getty Museum never had the best reputation in Italy and it's not because the Getty is fabulously wealthy -- its endowment is worth $5.6-billion (U.S.) -- and can buy masterpieces when the struggling Italian museums can barely afford washroom cleaners. It's because the Italians think the Getty was built on looted art. Looted Italian art to be exact...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070925.WBwreguly20070925080940/WBStory/WBwreguly

Transfer Of Antiquities To New Acropolis Museum To Begin Next Month
Earthtimes
Athens - The process of transferring priceless artefacts currently housed in a small museum atop the Acropolis in Athens to a new state-of-the art Acropolis Museum will begin next month, Greece's culture minister said Monday. Mihalis Liapis said it would take three months for all of the 340 priceless artefacts to be loaded onto three special cranes from atop the Acropolis and to make the 400-metre journey to the new modern glass and steel structure...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/113117.html

Italy And Getty Sign Antiquities Deal
Washington Post
ROME -- Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092500884.html

Human Presence Dating Back 12,000 Years Found In Marmaris
Turkish Daily News
The recent excavation project carried out by Marmaris Municipality in Nimara Cave revealed traces of human presence dating back 12,000 years. The researchers stated that the cave was used as a place of worship in ancient times. The cave, declared a protected area in 1999, also shelters butterflies similar to those in Fethiye's Butterfly Valley...
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=84120

Medieval Castle Unearthed At Southwest Wales Car Park
New Kerala
London, Sept 25 : A team of professional and voluntary archaeologists have uncovered what seem to be the remains of a medieval castle in a north Pembrokeshire car park, in Wales...
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=5141

Castle Wall Find At Car Park Dig
BBC News
Archaeologists and volunteers digging at a village car park believe they have found the remains of a medieval castle...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7012061.stm

Archaeologists Discover Bronze Age Baby In Peterborough Quarry
24 Hour Museum
Archaeologists investigating a quarry site near Peterborough have unearthed the 3,500-year-old remains of a baby in a Bronze Age burial mound...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART50937.html

3,500-Year-Old Baby Unearthed At English Bronze Age Site
Daily India
London, Sept 25: Archaeologists have unearthed the tiny skeleton of a 3,500-year-old baby at a quarry near Peterborough, in Eastern England...
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/176933.php/3500-year-old-baby-unearthed-at-English-Bronze-Age-site

Archaeologist Finds Overlooked Baskets, Jars In Tutankhamun Tomb
RIA Novosti
CAIRO, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Eight fruit-filled baskets and 20 sealed jars previously un-noticed by Egyptologists have been found concealed in a chamber adjoining the tomb of King Tutankhamun, a top Egyptian archaeologist said...
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070925/80879359.html

Viking Treasure Trove Discovered In Swedish Garden
National Geographic News
A thousand-year-old Viking treasure trove has been dug up in a garden in Sweden, archaeologists report...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070924-vikings-treasure.html

Ancient Egyptian Fruit Hamper Found In King Tut's Tomb
AFP
CAIRO (AFP) — Eight baskets filled with fruits preserved for more than 3,000 years have been discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in Tutankhamun's tomb, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Monday...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7PwdB3jIye5ggAVG3SwOhM2JqUA

Ancient Fishermen Lured Fish With Fire
Discovery News
Sept. 25, 2007 — Fishermen around areas mentioned in the New Testament worked the night shift, suggests fishing gear found in a 7th century shipwreck off the coast of Dor, Israel, west of Galilee, where Jesus is said to have preached...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/25/firefishing_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070925123000

King Herod's Temple Quarry Found
Discovery News
Sept. 24, 2007 — Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound — offering rare insight into construction of the holiest site in Judaism...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/09/24/herod_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070924091530