December 14th News

A lot of the news these days is coming from the UK, I've noticed.

New stories as of 10:17 AM:

The Thriving Roman Town That Slipped Into Oblivion
Times Online
The Times caused a sensation almost 80 years ago when it revealed the discovery of an extraordinary street grid of a Roman town in Norfolk. It published dramatic aerial photographs that were taken from an RAF aircraft and which showed the pattern left in parched barley fields during the exceptionally dry summer of 1928...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3042722.ece

Review: The Dirt On Clean
International Herald Tribune
The Dirt on Clean An Unsanitized History. By Katherine Ashenburg. Illustrated. 358 pages. $24. North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.In 1927, worried that the advent of paved roads, automobiles and electric power would lead to a less dirty citizenry, America's soap manufacturers banded together to create the Cleanliness Institute...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/14/arts/15idbriefs15C.php
I've glanced through this book myself and it looks like a good read, written in an amusing style.

A Little Pompeii In The Heart Of Rimini
Easier Travel
After 2000 years, the archaeological site of the Surgeon’s Domus opens to the public under an enormous crystal glass covering ’A little Pompei’ in the city centre, which has already become famous in the world owing to its unique archaeological finds...
http://www.easier.com/view/Travel/Attractions_and_Events/article-152358.html

Ancient Roman Glue Sticks Around
Discovery News
Dec. 14, 2007 -- Roman warriors repaired their battle accessories with a superglue that is still sticking around after 2,000 years, according to new findings on display at the Rheinischen Landes Museum in Bonn, Germany...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/14/romans-glue-helmet.html

Ancient Egyptian Glass Making Recreated
EurekAlert
A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/cu-aeg121407.php

Roman Hoard Placed On Display
UKTV
A hoard of Roman artefacts and vessels is now on show to the public having been unearthed in the City of London...
http://uktv.co.uk/history/news/aid/597286

Norfolk's Roman Site Is Hailed
EDP24
On the morning of July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over a field at Caistor St Edmund just to the south of Norwich which shed light on one of Britain's most important archaeological treasures...
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED13%20Dec%202007%2022%3A02%3A13%3A070

Stunning Survey Unveils New Secrets Of Caistor Roman Town
Physorg.com
On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of Norwich...
http://www.physorg.com/news116766620.html