November 29th News

A range of old and new stories today. Some of the continuations of older stories are new points of view and controversy.

New stories as of 8:07 AM:

Four Mosaics Returned To Syria Following Restoration In Italy
SANA
Damascus, (SANA) – Minister of Culture Riad Naasan Agha participated in the ceremony held on Wednesday at Damascus National Museum on occasion of delivering four Syrian mosaics restored in Italy...
http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2007/11/28/150745.htm

Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled
BBC News
The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7113810.stm

Greece Hopes Tougher Legislation Will Stop Illegal Trafficking In Antiquities
PR-Inside
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The Greek government on Thursday revealed the details of a draft law it hopes will choke off the lucrative plundering of its antiquities...
http://www.pr-inside.com/greece-hopes-tougher-legislation-will-r324004.htm

Ex-Getty Curator Cleared
Kathimerini
An Athens court on Tuesday acquitted a former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles who had been charged with illegally acquiring an ancient Greek golden wreath in the early 1990s...
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_29/11/2007_90594

Greece Appeals Court Dismisses Case Against Former Getty Curator
Jurist
[JURIST] A Greek appeals court Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against former Getty Museum [museum website] curator Marion True for her alleged involvement in the looting of an ancient gold wreath from Greece. The Los Angeles museum acquired the wreath in 1993, and Greek prosecutors brought charges against True alleging that the artifact had been illegally removed from the country...
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/11/greece-appeals-court-dismisses-case.php

Is Italy's Spectacular Find Authentic?
Spiegel Online
Italy has been rocked by soccer violence, the government is divided and the economy is sluggish. Now archaeologists have entered the scene to save the country's national pride. On a hill in the center of the nation's capital, they have allegedly found the sacred cave of the founders of Rome...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,520440,00.html

Roman Discoveries At London Olympic Site
China Daily
LONDON - Digs at the London Olympic site have unearthed evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlements, authorities said on Wednesday...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2007-11/29/content_6288074.htm

Pottery, Coin Found At Olympic Site
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Roman pottery and a coin from the Iron Age have been found on the site of the aquatics center planned for the London 2012 Olympics...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMSM3pn93XM-5UlIxbJgL40JVc3AD8T6VL5G0