October 25th News

Silbury Hill is getting a lot of coverage this morning.

New stories as of 8:20 AM:

Trajan's Markets Reopen To Public In Rome
About.com
Trajan's Markets, one of Rome's top ancient sites, reopened to the public last week. The markets, built in 113 AD, are believed to have been the world's first shopping mall and apartment complex but recent finds suggest they may have been administrative buildings for Emperor Trajan who ruled Rome from 98 to 117 AD...
http://goitaly.about.com/b/a/257915.htm

Sealing Up Silbury Hill
Channel 4 News
Stone-age man built Silbury Hill with his bare hands and it has dominated this landscape and people's imaginations ever since. In the last few centuries they started to unearth the history and meaning of the mound, but their curiosity was clumsy: in the year 2000 Silbury Hill started to collapse...
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/sealing+up+silbury+hill/954452

Mysteries Remain Sealed Inside Silbury Hill
Guardian Unlimited
English Heritage's excavation of the Neolithic monument has unearthed sarsen stones and arrowheads but few clues about the enigmatic site's original purpose...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2198955,00.html

Badgers Moved To Protect Cemetery
BBC News
A badger sett has been moved to stop it damaging a medieval cemetery in Pembrokeshire...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7060502.stm

The Souls Of Silbury Hill Are Bared In Burial Mound Dig
The Independent
Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Silbury Hill, one of Britain's greatest historical mysteries...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3093799.ece

Roman Villa Discovered In Austria
IOL
Vienna - Archaeologists in the western Austrian province Tyrol unearthed the remains of a large-scale Roman villa, complete with extensive floor mosaics that may have been also a source for a number of local legends...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20071025122641496C214281

Silbury Hill: Burial Ground For Neolithic 'Souls'
The Daily Mail
Europe's tallest man-made mound, Silbury Hill, may have been a tomb for the souls of dead Neolithic men, according to archaeologists...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489618&in_page_id=1770

Ancient Egyptians Used Waterways To Transport Pyramid Stones From Quarries
TopNews
Washington, Oct 25 : Egyptian archaeologists claim to have discovered a canal at the Aswan rock quarry, which they say was used to ferry stone blocks used for constructing the giant pyramids, to the Nile River...
http://www.topnews.in/ancient-egyptians-used-waterways-transport-pyramid-stones-quarries-24433

Engineers Called In To Save Silbury Hill
Telegraph
Emergency work has begun to save Europe's largest prehistoric man-made construction from collapse...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/nsilbury125.xml

Last Chance To Solve Puzzle Of Ancient Hill
Times Online
It is exactly 130 steps to the Neolithic heart of Silbury Hill, Britain’s most enigmatic prehistoric monument. A tunnel is giving archaeologists their last chance for at least a generation to study from the inside the largest man-made mound in Europe...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2733437.ece

Monument's Tunnels To Be Filled
BBC News
Tunnels built into the side of an ancient mound in Wiltshire in the late 1960s are to be filled in because of fears the monument could collapse...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7059874.stm

In Pictures: Inside Silbury Hill
BBC News
Building work has been going on to stabilise the ancient monument of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire for six months but before sealing up the tunnel, media were allowed inside it...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7059882.stm

Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry To Nile Found
National Geographic News
Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071024-ancient-egypt.html