October 16th News

There's a range of stories today, spanning from more on the new Acropolis Museum and the Templar documents, to some new discoveries.

New stories as of 10:47 AM:

Vatican Archive Yields Templar Secrets
BBC News
The Knights Templar, a military order of the Roman Catholic Church, are back in the news again, almost 700 years after they were suppressed by papal edict...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7044741.stm

Ancient Necropolis Unearthed In Busy District In Bulgaria's Coastal Varna
Sofia News Agency
Builders, working on a construction site near the market place of the Bulgarian coastal town of Varna, unearthed a second century necropolis containing two sarcophagi...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86380

Three Ancient Sarcophaguses Found In The Centre Of Varna
News.bg
Tree stone sarcophaguses were found during excavation works in the region of the cooperation market in the centre of Varna city...
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1786222044

Should London Finally Lose The Parthenon Marbles?
Guardian Unlimited
A specially designed museum in Athens has reawakened the debate over the Acropolis sculptures. But will this be its final phase?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/10/should_london_finally_lose_the.html

Acropolis Statues Lifted Into New Home
UKTV
Experts are moving 2,500-year-old sculptures from the Acropolis to a museum at the bottom of the ancient citadel...
http://uktv.co.uk/history/news/aid/594849

Should We Give The Parthenon Marbles Back?
The Guardian Unlimited
If only we'd listened to Byron, what a lot of trouble over the Elgin/Parthenon marbles would have been saved. "Dull is the eye that will not weep to see/Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed/By British hands ..." he wrote in Childe Harold...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2192129,00.html

Cyprus' Dwarf Hippos Were The Last In Europe
Cyprus Mail
CYPRUS was home to Europe's last ancient dwarf hippopotami, according to the latest findings from a site in Ayia Napa during an excavation...
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=35342&cat_id=1

British Templars Call On Pope To Apologise
Times Online
A British order of Templars that claims direct descent from the original Knights Templar is calling on the Pope to apologise after a newly-discovered but ancient Vatican document shows that the knights were absolved of crimes laid against them seven centuries ago...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2671684.ece

Archaeologists Find Mysterious Carved Stone
Huliq
Experts are studying a carved stone recently uncovered on Whitby Abbey Headland in North Yorkshire to see if it represents the first Bronze Age artifact from the site...
http://www.huliq.com/38175/archaeologists-find-mysterious-carved-stone