November 1 News

It's a new month so let's see what the stories are. Some are going to carry over from last month, such as the Princeton Museum agreement, but there are a number of new stories as well.

New stories as of 11:01 AM:

Princeton University Art Museum And Italy Sign Agreement Over Antiquities
Media Newswire
(Media-Newswire.com) - The Princeton University Art Museum and Italian cultural authorities on Oct. 30 signed an agreement that resolves the ownership of 15 works of art in the museum's collection. The signing took place in Rome...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1056887.html

Etruscan Treasures To Return Home: Italy Signs Deal With Princeton University For Looted Art Pieces
Tandem - Online Magazine
This past Tuesday Italy signed a deal with Princeton University for the return of looted artifacts — its latest coup in a battle against antiquities smuggling...
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=7817

Rosy Discoloration By Another Name
Spectroscopy Now
Italian researchers have used Raman spectroscopy and genetic fingerprinting to determine whether the red pigments produced by the bacterium Rubrobacter radiotolerans, so-called bacterioruberin carotenoids, are the same pigments responsible for colour changes in ancient frescoes in ancient paintings from the Crypt of the Original Sin, in Matera, Italy...
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=17397&type=Feature&chId=6&page=1

Prehistoric Treasures Lost Forever
The Media Line
The scene was straight out of an archaeologist's nightmare. Along the Jordan River, archaeological remains lay in heaps with no chance of ever being dated. The story behind hundreds of stone tools and animal bones was lost, along with whatever mystery slumbered beneath the soil...
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19435

Building Of Iraqi Police Barracks Threatens World Heritage Site
The Guardian
The construction of a large police barracks close to the Great Mosque of Samarra and its famed spiral minaret is imperilling another of Iraq's precious historical sites, Unesco and senior archaeologists have warned...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2202869,00.html

World Heritage Site Threatened In Iraq
Artinfo
SAMARRA, Iraq—The construction of a training center and barracks for police is threatening the Great Mosque of Samarra, a precious Iraqi historical site added to Unesco’s list of endangered world heritage sites this summer, reports the Guardian...
http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/25980/world_heritage_site_threatened_in_iraq

Samarra Mosque At Risk From New Police Barracks
The Art Newspaper
LONDON. Barracks which will eventually house over 1,500 Iraqi policemen are under construction at Samarra, close to one of Iraq’s most famous monuments, the Great Mosque of Caliph Al-Mutawakkil with its celebrated 52-metre-high spiral minaret...
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=6352

What's Cooking In Medieval Italy?
Spectroscopy Now
The church of Sant'Antimo in the small town of Piombino in western Tuscany has had a chequered life. Built in the 13th Century, it served the local community for several hundred years until it was converted into a hospital in the 19th Century. Later, in 1994, it was abandoned before plans were submitted to convert the building into residential and commercial space. However, when restoration work began in 2003, it yielded up a surprise, with the discovery of a stash of ceramic vessels buried in a vault of the apse...
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=17456&type=Feature&chId=4&page=1

2,000 Year Old Jewelry At Scatness
The Shetland News
A LARGE piece of bronze jewellery found in the wall of a collapsed Iron Age house provides further evidence of the importance of the ancient Scatness settlement in Shetland, it was claimed last night (Wednesday)...
http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/news_11_2007/2,000%20year%20old%20jewellery%20at%20Scatness.htm