October 29th News

The big find for the weekend was the Roman tombstone in Scotland.

New stories as of 6:34 AM:

Princeton Agrees To Return Eight Art Objects To Italy But Will Keep Seven Others
The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Princeton University has reached an agreement with the government of Italy over 15 works of art in the university's possession whose ownership Italy disputed.
http://chronicle.com/subscribe/login?url=/daily/2007/10/533n.htm
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Palace At Silchester May Have Been A Sop To Loyalty
Times Online
Archaeology consists of putting together fragments of the past: a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle with only a tenth of the pieces and no picture. The solution to just such a puzzle in the Roman city of Calleva Atrebatum at Silchester has been proposed, based on scattered pieces of carved stone that may document a palace of Nero's time...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article2758605.ece

Princeton To Return Disputed Art To Italy
The New York Times
ROME, Oct. 26 — Princeton University announced on Friday that its art museum had reached an agreement to return eight ancient works to Italy that the Italian government says were looted and illicitly exported...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/arts/design/27prin.html?ref=design

Roman Tombstone Found At Inveresk
BBC News
The first Roman tombstone found in Scotland for 170 years has been unearthed at Carberry, near Inveresk...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7066539.stm

Amateur's Roman Tombstone Find Is First In Scotland For 170 Years
The Herald
The first Roman tombstone to be found in Scotland for more than 170 years has been uncovered by an amateur archaeologist...
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1791961.0.0.php

Homework Project Digs Up Roman Relic
The Scotsman
IT HAD lain undiscovered and untouched for almost 2,000 years and could have been lost forever if not for the persistence of an amateur archaeologist and his camera phone...
http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1718052007

First Roman Tombstone Discovered In Scotland For 170 Years
Monsters & Critics
The first Roman tomb to be found in Scotland for 170 years has been uncovered in Inveresk...
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/uk/news/article_1369479.php/First_Roman_tomb_discovered_in_Scotland_for_170_years