November 9th News

There's some interesting new stories today, as well as updates on older ones.

New stories as of 6:24 AM:

Two Ancient Maps Stolen From Spain Returned By FBI
Earthtimes.org
Washington, Nov 9 - FBI has turned over to Spain two of the world maps from Ptolemy's 'Geographia' that were stolen from Madrid's National Library in August, the Spanish news agency EFE said...
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/139162.html

Lebanon Through The Ages Part II: Medieval Lebanon
Bits Of News
Gone were the days of the mighty Phoenician city-states; by the end of the 600s CE, Lebanon lay shattered by natural disasters and neglected at the outer edges of the slowly-crumbling Byzantine Empire...
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6422/

Tron Revamp Unearths 'Treasure Chest'
The Scotsman
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed centuries-old remains of shops, tenements and cobblestones under the Royal Mile...
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1781842007

<> - New Book Tells The Untold Secret Of Egyptian Mummies
Exduco.net
A new book due to be launched tonight (Thursday) tells the untold secrets of Manchester's answer to Tutankhamen: the "Two Brothers" - a pair of 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummies at The Manchester Museum...
http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2567

Iraq Asks Britain To Return Hundreds Of Missing Artifacts
Azzaman In English
The government has asked British authorities to hand over to the Iraq Museum 654 priceless archaeological pieces that went missing shortly after U.S. invasion troops landed in Baghdad in 2003...
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-11-8%5Ckurd.htm

Royal Seal Indicates Biblical Queen Jezebel's Power
Fox News
Jezebel, the queen whose name became synonymous with all things lewd and wicked, probably wielded a fair bit of power in ancient Israel, suggests a stone document seal newly traced to the Biblical "bad girl."...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309761,00.html